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The Wendy and Emery Reves Frame Collection

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GENERAL DESCRIPTION
Emery Reves's taste in frames was exceptional and his frame collection is extremely fine and diverse. It contains examples from England, Italy, Austria, Germany, Spain, and the Netherlands. However, its great strength is in French frames. And while his wife appreciated them, frames were the passion of Emery Reves. He seems to have become interested in the subject as part of collecting paintings.

Gerald Murphy, Time, and Technology

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By the 1920s, Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity, first published in the 1910s, invalidated Sir Isaac Newton’s version of time as a uniform absolute. Because of this, many artists and writers developed a fascination with the subjective experience of time. In Watch (1925; 1963.75.FA), Gerald Murphy engaged his own preoccupation with time.

Iconography of the Ifa divination tray (opon ifa)

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The eight segments of this divination tray are separated by a rope-like convention that may refer to the rope a palm wine tapper uses to climb the tree. Beginning at the top of the tray and moving clockwise, Eshu's face appears at each of the cardinal points (segments 1, 3, 5, and 7). Multiple images of Eshu are not uncommon on Ifa divination trays. However, Eshu appears in a double image at the top of this tray.

Texas Art—Women artists

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The histories of art have largely been written by and emphasized men. But as several decades of scholarship have shown, women have always made significant contributions to art and, indeed, have traditionally been not only makers but vitally important promoters and sustainers of culture as well.
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