Object Notes

In 1734, the Dutch East India Company hired the Amsterdam drawing master Cornelis Pronk (1691-1759) to create porcelain designs to be copied in China.

In 1734, the Dutch East India Company hired the Amsterdam drawing master Cornelis Pronk (1691-1759) to create porcelain designs to be copied in China.

Completed soon after Ida O'Keeffe arrived in San Antonio to teach, this work retains the subdued palette used in her Missouri landscapes. In addition, both paintings convey a mood of wonderment and wistfulness. Her sue of the frame to extend the composition achieves a witty visual conceit.

The earliest Jomon wares were simple pots with pointed bases and plain round rims. As this example shows, by the middle of the Jomon period, pots were given flat bases and fanciful rim decoration.

Jim Hodges's art references ideas of traditional beauty and intense emotion. Drawing on commonly understood symbols, objects, and formats, Hodges expresses a spirit of human interconnectedness and interdependency in works that are richly metaphorical.

In this photograph, part of the celebrated Untitled Film Stills series of black-and-white photographs Cindy Sherman created in the late 1970s, a pathetic female figure is seen cowering

Composed of stenciled letters broken arbitrarily, Christopher Wool's

As the title suggests, these restless minds mimics the frenzied activity of a typical American mind.