2007.65 After Charles Robert Ashbee, Two-handled dish
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
The overall form of this dramatic dish, with its elongated handles capped by jade cabochons, is remarkably similar to a porringer designed by British Arts & Crafts designer Charles Robert Ashbee for the Guild of Handicraft (20
1934.1 Victor Higgins, Mountain Ceremony
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
The most progressive of the Taos painters, Victor
2000.317 Constantin Brancusi, The Sleeping Muse
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
Constantin Brancusi's Sleeping Muse—a detached head lying on its cheek—entered new ground in the representation of a conceptual image. The head is so refined and reduced in its perfect.
1984.49.43.FA Berenice Abbott, Fulton Street Fish Market
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
NOTES
1936, print 1983
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1953.1 Georgia O'Keeffe, Bare Tree Trunks with Snow
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
Taking winter-stripped trees in upstate New York as her subject, Georgia O'Keeffe simplified what she saw until what is left in this painting is an exploration of shape and color.
1963.68.FA Henri Matisse, Ivy in Flower
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
In 1952 Henri Matisse was asked to create a stained-glass window for the mausoleum of art collector Albert Lasker, and he took on the project with enthusiasm.