2007.39 Handforth, Dallas Snake
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
A site-specific work for the Dallas Museum of Art's Sculpture Garden, Dallas Snake is an enormous, lively, and surreal sculpture standing over fifteen feet tall.
2007.11 Stanczak, Fractiones
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
Julian Stanczak’s paintings are commonly associated with the Op Art movement, a term coined by Donald Judd after seeing Stanczak’s influential show at Martha Jackson Gallery in 1964.
2001.344 Hofmann, Untitled
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
The intensely colored forms of this still life seem to vibrate next to each other, heightened by the vigorously applied paint that is thickly crusted in some areas and dripped in others. The liveliness of color and paint application creates a space imbued with energy.
2001.339 Cragg, Stevenson
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2000.318 Grant, Looking North
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
This realist painting by Fort-Worth based artist J.T. Grant depicts a dramatic, partially sunlit cloud formation. Painted from memory, Grant's "real" scene borders on the surreal, with a cloud assuming the shape of a strange animal or a floating island.
1985.175 Honoré Daumier, Ancient History, No. 13: The Abduction of Helen
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Paris, who had worn himself out,
Was just good for nothing but kraut.
Helen knew it and in her strong arms,
1985.176 Honoré Daumier, The Despair of Calypso
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In the vain hope to forget,
The ingrate for whom her heart sobs.
This nymph remains in her cave,
2000.76.FA Honoré Daumier, Ancient History, No. 11: The Sword of Damocles
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You aren't sorry to miss on this day
a knife in order to dine,
said the amiable tyrant.
1942.44 Honoré Daumier, The Good Bourgeois, No. 46: The Obligatory New Year's Visit to Aunt Rabourdin
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
This print is from The Good Bourgeois, a series composed of ninety-five lithographs published in
2015.51.1 Honoré Daumier, The Socialist Women, No. 10: Strange, my wife has been away at the banquet a long time... it has been forty-eight hours since she left!
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
After the French monarch Louis-Philippe lost power, women began to organize so-called banquets, which were in fact political rallies. Here, a father slouches in a chair, head in hand, as he laments that his wife has been away at a banquet for many hours. Meanwhile, he seems oblivious to his young child, who has commandeered his top hat and cane.