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William Holmes
New York and the Brooklyn Suspension Bridge
1878 – 1888
Gift of the Marvin Felheim Collection
1983/1.289
Stoneware jar with natural ash glaze and bell-shaped lid. Along the widest horizontal stretch of the base is an incised circle-and-dot design. A variation on this pattern also loops around the lid, topped by a line marking a ring along the surface of the lid, and incised lines extending outward from a button-shaped knob.<br /> <br /> This is a dark gray, high-fired stoneware lidded bowl with a stamped design. The lid features a button-shaped knob at its center. Thinly incised lines encircle the upper part of the lid, dividing its surface into two segments. The inner segment is decorated with a triangular line design, whereas the outer segment is decorated with a design consisting of semicircles with dots inside, which border the inner segment. Sets of two thinly incised horizontal lines run around the section of the bowl immediately below the rim and the lower middle part of the body. A double semicircular design decorates the segment between these two sets of lines. The foot is short and thick and has a fo
Korean (Korean (culture or style))
Cinerary urn with triangular circle-and-dot design
7th century
Gift of Mrs. Caroline I. Plumer for the James Marshall Plumer Collection
1973/2.36A&B

Herbert Waters
Granite Quarry, New Hampshire
1930 – 1940
Allocated by the U.S. Government Commissioned through the New Deal art projects
1943.144

John Bernard Flannagan
Crouching Figure
1915 – 1938
Museum Purchase
1950/2.9
Curved bench with dark brown granite base and curved, frosted or fritted, pale green glass on top.
Howard Ben Tré (American (North American))
Chazan Bench #10
2006
From the collection of Dr. and Mrs. Joseph A. Chazan
2008/2.216
Varahi has a crowned boar’s head on a woman’s body. She sits with her ankles crosses and originally had four arms, the back two have broken away as has the front right hand which had probably been held up in a reassuring gesture. Her left from hand is held down at her left knee with the palm held facing out in a gesture of giving. Her body is softly modeled with a narrow waist and full breasts. She wears jewelry that is in sharp but low relief and includes a series of necklaces forming a collar of decoration and a longer one that falls between her breasts which suggests the sacred thread extending down to her waist at her right. She is naked from the waist up and the lower garment is merely suggested by the heavier folds at the waist. Her head is tilted and her chin/snout had jutted out to the left, but the lower snout is broken away. She wears a conical crown that accents the long diagonal of her face. Originally there was an arch behind the image which would have supported her back arms, so the imag
Artist Unknown, India, Tamil Nandu, Kanchipuran
Varahi
900 – 932
Museum Purchase
1960/1.113
A black granite abstract sculpute. Two "legs" rise up toward one another to meet at a point, making a basic triangle shape. At the bottom of the "legs," two horizontal "feet" protrude away from the object's center and end in four-sided points.
Tony Smith
Spitball
1961 – 1970
Gift of W. Hawkins Ferry
1974/2.51
Photographed near the summit of a snowy mountian peak, this photograph depicts a steep cliff sloping down through the center of the frame.
Ansel Adams (American (North American))
Monolith, the Face of Half Dome, Yosemite Valley, California
1927
Gift of Harry H. Lunn, Jr.
1981/2.160
Stoneware jar with natural ash glaze, squat body and lid. Along the widest horizontal stretch is a design of incised concentric circles, with another row above consisting of circles comprised of a pattern of impressions marking the edge of each circle. The convex curve of the lid also contains a row of incised concentric circles, before sloping into a concave valley, and rising up again to a small plateau. It is on this landing that a cintamani style knob rests.<br /> <br /> This is a dark blue-gray, high-fired stoneware lidded bowl with a stamped design. The lid features a pearl-shaped knob at its center and gently slopes down from its flat upper part. A row of double circles encircles upper part of the lid, with the circles in irregular positions. The bowl is widest in its upper part, while its flange slopes steeply inwards. Two thinly incised horizontal lines encircle the upper part of the body. Above these is a row of circles made of engraved dots, while between them is a row of double circles encirclin
Korean (Korean (culture or style))
Cinerary urn with concentric circles design
600 – 799
Gift of Mrs. Caroline I. Plumer for the James Marshall Plumer Collection
1973/2.34A&B
Image of five men wearing white clothing and black hats. They are all either seated or crouching in a circle. Very textured surface with frame that is part of the piece. Colors of greys, whites, browns and blacks.
Park Soo Keun
People on the Street
1962
Gift of the Joseph T.A. and Elsie Choy Lee Family
2013/2.525
This photograph depicts a river lined by trees, while a granite cliff fills the background of the image. 
Ansel Adams (American (North American))
Merced River, Cliffs, Autumn, Yosemite Valley, California
1939
Gift of Harry H. Lunn, Jr.
1987/1.172
Heavily worked and reworked pencil drawing on large square of grid paper. Form is an ovoid shape with longitudinal and lateral lines, thinner than it is tall, fit into a rectangular box that represents the block of stone to be carved. At the bottom right of the sketched image, Highstein has noted the dimensions (7&rsquo; x 7&rsquo; x 2&rsquo;) x 7. Seven blocks of granite at 2&rsquo; x 2&rsquo; x 7&rsquo; were meant to be stacked and carved into the proposed shape.
Jene Highstein
Early Stage of Proposal for General Mills Commission (Egyptian Beauty)
1987
The Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection: Fifty Works for Fifty States, a joint initiative of the Trustees of the Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection and the Nation Gallery of Art, with generous support from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Institute for Museum and Library Services
2008/2.232
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