2017.14.2 Gambling tray, Lois Conner Bohna, c. 2006 (California, Mono-Chukchansi)
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
NOTES
Mono-Chukchansi, c.
1987.350, Martin Puryear, Noblesse O, 1987, red cedar, aluminum paint
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
In Noblesse O. Martin Puryear sculpts with red cedar and then applies aluminum paint to contrast the natural with the man-made, and the interior form with the exterior surface.
1985.98, Sam Francis, Untitled (Black Clouds), 1952
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
Although Sam Francis is known primarily as a colorist, and he searched the world for rare pigments to use in his vivid compositions, this work is from a series of works he executed in black.
1981.136, Clyfford Still, "Untitled," 1964, oil on canvas
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
In Untitled, thick interjections of olive green, canary yellow, sky blue, and violet punctuate a vertical construction of interlocking, jagged red and black shapes.
2014.26.3 Black-on-black jar with geometric designs (San Ildefonso Pueblo, New Mexico)
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
This black-on-black jar by famed Pueblo artist Maria Martinez combines ancient Indian symbolism and ceramic techniques with a sleek austerity akin to 20th-century American design aesthetics. Martinez began experimenting with blackware following a commission from archaeologists to re-create ancient Indian pottery excavated near San Ildefonso, New Mexico.
2011.45 Classic Mimbres Black-on-white bowl: geometric composition and radiating feathers (New Mexico, Mogollon (Mimbres))
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
Mimbres potters developed one of the Southwest’s most appealing painting styles, distinguished by geometric compositions and narrative imagery that provides an eloquent record of Mimbres life. The painting on many Mimbres vessels suggests concepts of sacred space or cosmic geography.
1968.7.FA, Tom Wesselmann, "Mouth #11," 1967, oil canvas
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
In the early 1960s, pop artist Tom Wesselmann began a series of monumental paintings of blonde nudes languorously posed in interior, nonspecific settings.
2005.52 Tripod vessel with anthropomorphized legs (Costa Rica, Atlantic Watershed)
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
NOTES
Atlantic Watershed, Late Period IV, 1–500 CE (noted on TMS), updated by KJones on 06/19/14 and 04/10/17.
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