Object Notes

In 1912, painter Wassily Kandinsky published Du Spirituel dans l'art (On the Spiritual in Art), a catalyst of early experimentation with abstraction.

This watercolor may be one of approximately six hundred political and social cartoons produced by Franz Wacik for Die Muskete, a wee

Trained at the Vienna School of Applied Arts, Georg Klimt, brother of famed artist Gustav, frequently exhibited designs of gold, copper, and other metals at the Austrian Museum for Art and Industry.

Riessner, Stellmacher and Kessel, known as Amphora due to the mark on its designs, was an earthenware and porcelain manufactory based in Turn-Teplitz, Austria (now the Czech Republic), a region with an abundant supply of kaolin, an essential element of por

This tureen and stand were originally part of a 129 piece table service commissioned by William Andrews Clark (1839-1925), who served as a senator from Montana from 1901 to 1907. While Clark had extensive properties in Montana, this service wa