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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 photograph of an elderly man in an interior space. In the foreground, three pigeons sit on top of a large cage. The man holds a fourth bird and another cage sits behind him.
Henri Cartier-Bresson (French (culture or style))
Henri Matisse, Vence, France
1944
Museum purchase made possible by the W. Hawkins Ferry Fund
1999/1.97

Georg Pencz
Samson and Delilah
1531 – 1532
Museum purchase made possible by the W. Hawkins Ferry Fund
1999/2.21
The Roman emperor Vespasian sits in an interior receiving a document from a standing figure to the right of the composition. The emperor is dressed in a white robe and sits on a red chair to the left of the composition. The interior is largely dark, with the exception of the emperor, whose figure is brightly lit.<br />The painting is in the original frame, which is constructed to resemble a Roman Temple with base, entablature, and fluted ionic pilasters.
Lawrence Alma-Tadema
Vespasian hearing from one of his generals of the taking of Jerusalem by Titus
1866
Museum purchase made possible by the W. Hawkins Ferry Fund
2004/2.143
A photograph of a drawing made with chocolate syrup on a piece of white plexi-glass.
Vik Muniz (American (North American))
Death of Chatterton
2000
Museum purchase made possible by the W. Hawkins Ferry Fund
2006/1.153
This vertical piece has a color photograph on the bottom showing people walking along a city street. Above are comic-strip-style illustrations in black acrylic on white paper, within five frames.  The middle bottom frame of different style than the others. The title "Crocodile Tears: Buried Treasure" appears at the top, and the whole work is mounted and framed.
Douglas Heubler (American (North American))
Crocodile Tears: Buried Treasure (De Chirico V)
1990
Museum purchase made possible by the W. Hawkins Ferry Fund
2008/1.160.1
A young man leans against a stone ledge and gazes to his right. He wears a slate blue jacket with a white collar and cuffs and has a matching mantle. He casually hooks a finger of his left hand in the hilt of a sword that hangs at his waist. A plain stone column immediately behind the sitter creates a near silhouette of the shadowed side of his face. A hazy sky fills the background.
Joshua Reynolds
Lord Charles Spencer (1740-1820), Second son of the Third Duke of Marlborough
1759
Museum purchase made possible by the W. Hawkins Ferry Fund
2001/2.128

Marion Post Wolcott
Picnicking on the Beach, Sarasota, Florida
1941
Museum purchase made possible by the W. Hawkins Ferry Fund
2002/1.229

Paul Caponigro
Merced River, Yosemite, CA
1983
Museum purchase made possible by the W. Hawkins Ferry Fund
2002/1.230
chromogenic print
Candida Höfer
Basílica do Palácio Nacional de Mafra
2006
Museum purchase made possible by the W. Hawkins Ferry Fund
2007/2.15
This image is a circular format black and white photograph depicting four young African American girls wearing floral dresses lounging on a blanket in the grass. Three girls sit or prop themselves up and look at the camera, the fourth girl lays down, with her eyes closed. The glass in the frame has a domed surface, creating a fish-eye effect.
Carrie Mae Weems (American (North American))
After Manet
2002 – 2003
Museum purchase made possible by the W. Hawkins Ferry Fund
2004/2.3

David Hockney (British (modern))
Fourteen Poems by C.P. Cavafy
1966
Museum purchase made possible by the W. Hawkins Ferry Fund
2004/2.10
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