18 UMMA Objects
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Charles Burchfield
Moths and Insect Motifs
1917
Gift of Gilbert M. Frimet
1985/1.102

Enrico Baj
De Rerum Natura
1924 – 1983
Gift of the Marvin Felheim Collection
1983/1.267

Warren Lombard (American (North American))
Clover and Grass
1936
Gift of Prof. and Mrs. Alfred H. White
1940.116

Chinese (Chinese (culture or style))
Butterflies and Peach Blossoms
1832
Museum Purchase made possible by the Richard K. Beardsley Memorial Fund, supplemented by funds from the Friends
1980/1.220A
This print shows a black and white skull on a hairy, insect-like body with a tail and six legs. The figure holds another skull in its right hand and a bone in its left hand. Other smaller skulls and bones surround the figure.
José Guadalupe Posada (Mexican)
Calavera Huertista
1905 – 1915
Museum Purchase
1958/1.122
At the center of this work, there is a red, yellow, and blue figure with a gold hoop earring in the right ear. Eight black spiders dangle from lines on each side of figure and a snake-like createure is at the top. The whole watercolor has a rusty-orange backdrop.
William Baziotes (American (North American))
Figure with Spiders
1938
Gift of Gerome Kamrowski
1979/2.115

Richard Burnside
Large Yellow Cat
1980 – 1993
Gift of The Daniel and Harriet Fusfeld Folk Art Collection
2002/1.200

Japanese (Japanese (culture or style))
Iro-Nabeshima Plate with Maple Leaves on Spider Wed design, one of five
1700 – 1732
Museum purchase made possible by the Margaret Watson Parker Art Collection Fund
1964/1.103
This is a wooden stool with a circular base and a flat, circular seat. The seat is supported by an openwork design consisting of a circle with eight lines projecting outward. This motif is repeated six times around the stool. 
Cameroon (Cameroonian)
Stool
20th century
Gift of Dr. James and Vivian Curtis
1997/1.313
This small sculpture resembles a grasshopper-like insect standing on three legs, but instead of a head a branching form resembling tree roots emerges from the top of the sculpture.
Lynn Chadwick (British (modern))
Insect Form
1950 – 1954
Museum Purchase
1954/2.41

Geri Richards
Beekeeper
1903 – 1957
Museum Purchase
1957/2.38

Frederic Steele
(Deserted Tenement)
1935
Gift of Prof. and Mrs. Alfred H. White
1940.224
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