2008.95.3 Théophile Alexandre Steinlen, Dance on the Outskirts of Town
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
Created by the famous poster designer Théophile Steinlen, this lithograph depicts a working-class dance hall on the fringes of Paris.
2000.182.FA Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, The Chestnut Vendor
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
This print presents a motley cast of characters gathering on a dark and damp city street: a man with ragged clothing, a little girl wrapped in a shawl, a black lapdog, a chic woman wearing an ostrich-plumed hat, and a man selling roasted chestnuts on the sidewalk.
2000.208.FA Félix Hilaire Buhot, At the Boulevard de Clichy
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
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1954.139 Henri de Toulouse Lautrec, Le Divan Japonais
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
This lithograph by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec is an advertisement for Le Divan Japonais, one the many café-concerts that sprung up in the Montmartre quarter of Paris during the second half of the 19th century.
1978.71.25 Nikolai Ivanovich Kulbin, Lithographed text and illustration from "Explodity"
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
Disrupting conventional orders of perception, the words here move erratically across the page.
2000.224.FA Jean Louis Forain, To Bullier's
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
In this etching, Jean Louis Forain portrays two fashionable young women, arms linked, enjoying an evening on the town. Floating behind them are the glowing gas light fixtures that appear frequently in images of Paris’s theaters, restaurants, and entertainment venues at the turn of the century.
2007.37, Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla, Under Discussion, 2005, video
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
In Under Discussion, a fisherman steers a motorboat fashioned from an upturned table. He navigates a landscape featuring brilliant blue waters and a wildlife refuge, but also warning signs and abandoned military equipment.
2006.40, Mamma Andersson, Gone for Good, 2006, acrylic and oil on panel
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
A painter of deliberately naïve sensibility, Mamma Andersson composes domestic scenarios gone awry, as in this haunting image of a couch set on fire within a conventional living room.
1982.24.FA Piet Mondrian, Spring Sun (Lentezon): Castle Ruin: Brederode
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
A weblike network of tree branches reveals a distant glimpse of a deteriorating medieval castle.
1953.36 Sir William Beechey, The Misses Plowden
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
Sir William Beechey was a fashionable portrait painter of English society whose large clientele included the family of King George III. His style was largely inspired by the portraits of fashionable British aristocrats produced during the late 18th century by Sir Joshua Reynolds, Thomas Gainsborough, and George Romney.