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Near dusk, a woman in a kimono walks outside a Japanese style building with a shoji screen for a wall. The silhouettes of merry-makers inside can be seen, revealing the figure of a man and also a woman, probably a geisha, holding an instrument that appears to be a shamisen.
Takahashi Hiroaki
Evening in Tokyo: Figures in Silhouette behind a Shoji screen
1900 – 1921
Gift of Millard Pryor in Memory of Mary S. Pryor
1991/2.110
A photograph of the light court of the Rookery Building in Chicago, Illinois.
Stanford Lipsey
The Rookery Building
2007
Museum Purchase in honor of Stanford Lipsey made possible by a gift from Allen Grossman
2011/1.79
A photograph of part of the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, California.
Stanford Lipsey
Walt Disney Concert Hall
2006
Museum Purchase, in honor of Stanford Lipsey made possible by a gift from Allen Grossman
2011/1.78
A large stoneware jar with a slightly tapered body, wide shoulders and a wide flaring mouth.  There are smaller jars stacked on top, getting progressively smaller, topped with a hipped roof mimicking contemporary architectural features and additional architectural features such as towers around the mouth and a plethora of assorted figures, birds, and cosmological animals applied around the top half of the vessel.  It is covered in a grey-green celadon glaze. 
Chinese (Chinese (culture or style))
Funerary Jar
265 – 317
Museum purchase made possible by a gift from William and Martha Steen
2000/1.39
The print depicts a landscape with water scene on the foreground with buildings, trees, and a bridge on the bank.
Katsushika Hokusai
Landscape
1800 – 1849
Museum purchase made possible by the Margaret Watson Parker Art Collection Fund
1984/2.39
Ink and gouache drawing in black, gray and white on tan paper with tall vertical structure at center of composition rendered in a series of quick vertical and diagonal lines.
Albert Gleizes (French (culture or style))
Sur le Flat-Iron
1916
Gift of Herbert Barrows
2000/2.172
A black and white sketch of a building.
Emilio Sanchez
Callecita
1954 – 1964
Gift of the Emilio Sanchez Foundation
2011/2.108
Large, wooden, vertical and horizontal beams frame the left side of this lithograph. They are supporting the sloping, shadowy underside of a large boat's hull, on which many men are performing maintenance and repairs.<br />
Signed verso l.r., with scratch lettering, on stone, "Muirhead Bone"
Sir Muirhead Bone (British (modern))
Building a Cross Channel Train Ferry
1917 – 1918
Gift of Gilbert M. Frimet
2008/2.344
A demolished building in ruins on a city street. There is pavement and trees below.
Leonard Freed (American (North American))
Demolished Building, Paris, France
1978
Gift of Thomas Wilson '79 and Jill Garling '80
2014/2.335
A crescent moon hangs in a gray sky above a Seto kiln. A figure with his back to the viewer walks alongside the kiln.
Kawase Hasui
Ceramic Kiln in Seto
1920 – 1940
Gift of Millard Pryor in Memory of Mary S. Pryor
1991/2.115
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