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Text: Enlist in the Navy - (fascimile script below) Americans! Stand by Uncle Sam for Liberty against Tyranny! Theodore Roosevelt - (text on cross in image ) Slavery Barbarism
Louis Raemaekers
Enlist in the Navy
1912 – 1922
Gift of Mr. Maurice F. Lyons
1954/2.35.81
A Gothic-style church tower is seen in the middle distance. It dominates a cloudless sky in the upper portion of the image, with trees rising behind the lower portion of the building and a single story outcropping of the building expanding to the tower's left. The architectural details, especially the carved stonework and patterned brickwork, are rendered with precision.<br /> Signed and dated lower right on plate: "John Taylor Arms. 1937". Signed and dated lower right below plate in pencil: "John Taylor Arms 1937".<br /> Watermark: England
John Taylor Arms (American (North American))
Anglia Antiqua, West Walton
1937
Gift of Carl Fredric Clarke
1949/1.42
This etching has a grey and white all-over grid pattern. Thicker, light grey lines make up the main grid and individual squares from this pattern are broken into smaller quadrants of small white rectangles. The print uses lighter tones towards the center and outer corners of the work. Darker grey tones are used between these areas. The work is printed on ivory wove paper. The print is signed, dated, and numbered (l.r.) "Longo 70 4/45" in pencil. 
Vincent Longo (American (North American))
Frontal
1970
Gift of The Drawing and Print Club, Founders Society Detroit Institute of Arts
1971/1.191
This print is made up of overlaying photographs in a reddish-orange tint. Spots of red also overlap each other, and the photographs, and there is a large horizontal swath of a deeper red along the top. The print is editioned, signed and dated in pencil (l.r.) &quot;31/36 RAUSCHENBERG 1962&quot;.
Robert Rauschenberg (American (North American))
Stunt Man III
1962
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Sachs II
1964/1.88
In the center of the print, a red square is revealed by the white of the wall peeling and curling downwards. The print is signed and dated (l.l.) "James Boynton 1970" and numbered (l.r.) "V/XV" in pencil.
James Boynton
Composition
1970
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Charles D. Clark
1971/1.195
At the top of the page, there are two large vertically-oriented rectangles with a row of text below. The rectangle on the left is green, with thin lines to create texture, and the rectangle on the right is a cream colored rectangle with an American flag design faintly visible. In dark letters the text along the bottom of the poster reads, "JASPER JOHNS  DRAWINGS  JANUARY 10-31  LEO CASTELLI NEW YORK". The poster is signed in pencil by the artist (l.r.) "Jasper Johns".
Jasper Johns (American (North American))
Jasper Johns Drawings; poster for Leo Castelli Gallery
1970
Gift of Mr. Nick Nicolas
1974/2.46
This color lithograph has an abstract composition of thin lines, all about the same width, in red, orange, green, and black. The print is numbered (l.l.) "79/250", titled (l.c.) "Children of Niobe", and signed and dated (l.r.) "S W Hayter 54" in pencil.
Stanley William Hayter
Children of Niobe
1954
Bequest of Jean Paul Slusser
1983/2.38

Carol Ross
Periscopes
1965 – 1975
Gift of Michele Oka and Frederick Doner
1981/2.100
This quick pencil study shows five sketches of a man digging; he is not seen in a single pose, but these sketches seen from behind explore a number of actions that are part of the digging.
Camille Pissarro
Studies of a Peasant Digging (Études d'un paysan bêchant)
1830 – 1903
Museum Purchase
1963/2.21

Albert Kahn (American (North American))
Saint-Gilles
1869 – 1942
Transferred from the College of Architecture and Design, 1972—Gift of the Family of Albert Kahn: through Dr. Edgar A. Kahn; Mrs. Barnett Malbin; Mrs. Martin L. Butzel
1972/2.650

Albert Kahn (American (North American))
Karnak (from photograph)
1869 – 1942
Transferred from the College of Architecture and Design, 1972—Gift of the Family of Albert Kahn: through Dr. Edgar A. Kahn; Mrs. Barnett Malbin; Mrs. Martin L. Butzel
1972/2.652
This print has a central image of a nude woman, depicted in blue, with long yellow hair, holding an orange, red, and green umbrella. To her right, there is another umbrella, with an orange handle and a collaged canopy. There are a number of line drawings and text (mirrored) around the second umbrella. To the right, there is a collaged face. At the bottom of the print is a blue sea and a drawing in red of a sailboat. The print is signed (l.r.) and numbered (l.l.) in pencil.
Salvador Dali (Spanish (culture or style))
Antiombrelle à atomiseurs de liquides
1975
Anonymous Gift
1981/2.110.9
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