59 UMMA Objects
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Richard Josey
Portrait of Carlyle
1840 – 1906
Bequest of Margaret Watson Parker
1955/1.119

Wilhelm Leibl
Peasant Walking with a Stick
1844 – 1900
Museum Purchase
1957/2.31
A white marble statue of a young female figure, leaning forward holding a staff with eyes closed, her left hand held up to her right ear. A flowing, wind-swept garment drapes the figure. On the base to the left of the figure is a broken capital of a Corinthian column lying on its side.
Randolph Rogers (American (North American))
Nydia, the Blind Flower Girl of Pompeii
1861
Gift of Rogers Art Association
1862.1

Rembrandt van Rijn
The Blindness of Tobit: The Larger Plate
1651
Bequest of Margaret Watson Parker
1954/1.310
recto: studies for a group of figures (religious or allegorical) and two studies of standing women, one with child<br /><br />
verso: two sets of couples in caricature in contemporary dress<br /><br />
First side: Various people, one holding her hands below her waist, one speaking to a little boy, a group clustered together.<br />
Second side: two fashionably dressed couples (man and woman) walking.
French (French (culture or style))
Sheet of Sketches and Caricatures
1866
Gift of Professor Walter M. and Nesta R. Spink
2013/2.563.1-2

Max Beerbohm
Homage to Augustus John
1907
Museum Purchase
1965/2.6
This costume design shows a long black dress with a flaring skirt; white polka dots cover only the bottom left side. There is also a brown shawl with white scalloped edges and a bonnet, black inside and brown outside, with a blue feather. 
Georg Kirsta (Russian (culture or style))
Costume for 'Coppelia' by Delibes: Die alten Frauen
1929
Museum Purchase
1948/1.229
Elaborately carved staff with, from the top: a male figure wearing Western-style clothes, with painted eyes, eyebrows, mouth, moustache, hat and clothes, sitting on a simple stool, resting his hands on his knees; a U-shaped snake on one side and a mortar on the other; a pair of a male and a female figure on either side (the male is standing on one leg, bending the other at the knee to make a triangle); a dark black spherical form; a row of three turtles on one side and two salamanders and a frog on the other; and finally three outstretched snakes (painted yellow, brown and red, respectively), one of them eating a small frog.
Kongo (Kongo (culture or style))
Staff
1900 – 1950
Gift of Margaret H. and Albert J. Coudron
2001/2.42
Narrow staff topped with anthropomorphic head. The face has an elaborate coiffure and two lines werre incised as decoration at the top of the staff. 
Chokwe (Chokwe (culture or style))
Staff
Gift of Margaret H. and Albert J. Coudron
2001/2.50

Ovimbundu (Ovimbundu)
Staff
Gift of Margaret H. and Albert J. Coudron
2001/2.61
This wooden Chokwe staff features a smooth, narrow rod and a large carving of a female figure at its finial.  The female bears an elaborate, ridged coiffure, closed, coffee-bean shaped eyes, raised scarifications on her face, torso, and back, rounded shoulders, arms positioned down by her side, and a protruding navel. 
Chokwe (Chokwe (culture or style))
Staff
1900 – 1950
Gift of Margaret H. and Albert J. Coudron
2001/2.69

Hemba (Hemba (culture or style))
Staff
Gift of Margaret H. and Albert J. Coudron
2001/2.70
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