Object Notes

James Rosenquist's Paper Clip prominently features the red flying horse (corporate logo of the Mobil Oil Company and a beacon to travelers for decades) that adorns a high-rise in downtown Dallas, Texas.

Commissioned for the Dallas Museum of Art's Edward Larrabee Barnes downtown building, opened in 1984, the monumental site-specific Stake Hitch embodies artist duo Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen's proclivity for sculptures that resemble everyday objects

To create her Commuter series, artist N. Dash carries paper with her on her daily subway rides; creasing, folding, and unfolding the material in these periods of transition and pause between daily activities.

Large felines like jaguars, ocelots, and pumas are common in the art of the ancient Americas and in contemporary Latin American mythology. Solitary and nocturnal, the feline is both a powerful predator and a common alter ego, or spirit double, for shamans and priests.

Period VI, 1000–1500, NOT updated by KJones in TMS.

Period IV, 1000–1500, NOT updated by KJones in TMS.