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Three figures, two men and a woman, are seen seated around a round table with a lamp; all are engaged in reading in the pool of light provided by the lamp. The rest of the interior is fairly dark, particularly in the portion of the room behind the lamp. The man at the back of the table is shown roughly face-on; the man to the left is leaning back with his legs stretched out in front of him; the woman is closest to the viewer, shown in profile, holding her book fairly close to her face.
James Abbott McNeill Whistler (American (North American))
The Music Room
1858
Bequest of Margaret Watson Parker
1954/1.334
This installation is composed of a group of gelatin silver prints that are hung on the wall with sixty-four light bulbs strung throughout, a web of hanging electric cables connecting them.  In the center hang three larger photos of young people's faces. Above each and below the center image are smaller versions of similar portrait photographs. Four of these smaller photos are also arranged in the line of the large photographs, one on each end, and two separating the larger pictures.  
Christian Boltanski (French (culture or style))
Monument to the Lycée Chases
1989
Museum purchase made possible by the W. Hawkins Ferry Fund and anonymous individual benefactors
2006/1.154
A terracotta lamp with a rounded bottom on a circular base. The upper portion of the lamp is covered with multiple human and animal figures. The top of the lamp is formed by a short neck surmounted by a small bowl with two handles. 
Baatonu (Bariba)
Lamp
20th century
Gift of Dr. James and Vivian Curtis
1997/1.348
This is a tondo painting with a circular frame that is painted in tones of violet. It is a still-life scene that shows a lamp, resting on a table, set against a green wall. On the wall behind the lamp is a painting, but only the lower right-hand corner is visible due to the sharp curve of the circular format of the painting. On the table, beside the lamp, is a piece of paper and an ink well in the shape of a human figure. The base of the lamp has a curvilinear profile and the pleated shade is painted in bright colors of orange, pink, green and yellow. Both the scene and the frame are painted with short, dot-like brushstrokes.
Albert Dubois-Pillet (French (culture or style))
Under the Lamp (Sous la Lampe)
1883 – 1893
Museum purchase made possible by a gift from Helmut Stern
1988/1.140
This painting shows a woman and a boy sitting at a dining table that is set for a meal. The woman, on the right side of the composition, is shown in a profile view and is using a ladle to pour soup into a bowl. The boy, seated in a ladder back chair, is holding a spoon with his hands resting on the table. He is gazing at the soup bowl. Both figures have somber, quiet facial expressions. A table lamp, seen only partially on the far left of the painting, is the single source of light. So, the figures and the table top are brightly lit, but the rest of the setting is very dark. Items on the table such as the plate with melon, the milk bottle, the salt and pepper shakers and the tablecloth, are shown in realistic detail, much like a still- life painting.
John Koch (American (North American))
The Supper Table
1935 – 1945
Gift of Mrs. Dora Koch
1979/2.114
This print shows a bulbous lamp sitting on a table. Outlined in thick black lines, the lamp base, cord, and table are the same color as the background, a bright red. The lamp shade is solid black and the interior, visible in the ellipses at the top of the shade, is bright yellow. 
Patrick Caulfield (British (modern))
I've only the friendship of hotel rooms
1973
Gift of Jack A. and Noreen Rounick
2004/2.80.16
The peaked shade has eight panels with overlaid linear copper border decoration above a cove molded lower rim. The lamp retains four original sockets. The upper column consists of an octagonal capped vase-form with a dominant ogee profile over a round medial column which is slightly beveled in form and decorated with spaced, spirally arranged brass rods applied to its surface. The octagonal molded base repeats the ogee profile of the upper vase form.
Stickley Brothers Furniture Company
Oversized Lamp Shade
1904 – 1918
Gift of Jonathan Van Loo
2013/2.241B
This bronze light fixture consists of a central circular celestial motif from which extend twelve arms in a radial pattern. Six of these arms, embellished with maltese crosses, end in omega-shaped terminals. These decorated arms alternate with six unadorned arms that terminate in rings designed to hold glass oil lamps. The entire disk is suspended from three bronze chains joined to a large hook.
Coptic;Egyptian
Polycandelon for six oil lamps
6th century
Museum Purchase
1965/2.54
The peaked shade has eight panels with overlaid linear copper border decoration above a cove molded lower rim. The lamp retains four original sockets. The upper column consists of an octagonal capped vase-form with a dominant ogee profile over a round medial column which is slightly beveled in form and decorated with spaced, spirally arranged brass rods applied to its surface. The octagonal molded base repeats the ogee profile of the upper vase form.
Stickley Brothers Furniture Company
Oversized Floor Lamp
1904 – 1918
Gift of Jonathan Van Loo
2013/2.241A
Two forty-watt light bulbs in simple porcelain light sockets hang together by their extension cords from a nail on the wall.
Felix Gonzalez-Torres
"Untitled" (March 5th) #2
1991
Museum purchase made possible by the W. Hawkins Ferry Fund
1999/2.17
This photography is a view of a row of Victorian townhouses in Brooklyn, framed on the left by the angular L-shape of a street lamp post.
Walker Evans (American (North American))
Brownstone Houses, 222 Columbia Heights, Brooklyn, New York
1930 – 1931
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Harry H. Lunn, Jr., in Honor of the Centennial of The Michigan Daily
1990/2.57
In thick, sketchy lines, this print portrays a scene in which one figure leans against a wall on the left, and a crowd of people look over a balcony on the right. The top half of the composition is taken up mostly by a ceiling with two lamps with bare bulbs hanging from it.
Oda Kazuma
Interior of a Cinema Theater (Katsudo Shashinkan Naibu)
1920
Gift of the artist, through Mr. and Mrs. Yoshito Yamamoto
1950/2.5
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