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Pam and Netti

Floral Prints and Objects

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Created by
Margaret Grace VanderVliet
Last Updated
May 25, 2022 2:06 p.m.

9 Items in this Learning Collection
Zinnias

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Spring Landscape
Landscape painting depicting a dirt pathway with steps and a wooden railing cutting through the center of the composition leading to a house on a hill in the distance. On either side of the path are blooming trees bearing pink and white blossoms in a green meadow.
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Roses and Flowers in a Glass
This painting depicts a glass vase with roses, phlox, and other flowers standing on a table. One pink rose lies next to the vase on the table; the background is an undifferentiated background of brown/tan.
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La Fleur

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Raffia Textile Panel
Tan rectangular panel consisting of various tan rectilinear shapes that are outlined with thin double black stitching appliqued onto the panel.
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Plants from an Herbal: Chapter 429, Of Fumitorie. Page 927 (recto): 1. Common or purple, 2. White flowered; Page 928 (verso): 3. Fine leafed, 4. Yellow

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Flowering

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Sunflower III
This abstract print has a large dark red and black circular form in the top half of the frame and a large orange and red circular form in lower half.  Black splotches and expressive lines dominate and overlap much of the image.
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Equisetum Sylvaticum
This cyanotype photograph displays the silhouettes of six plant stems laid out in a row.
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Writing in the Surreal World
If you are unable to come to UMMA in person due to illness, quarantine, etc., you can choose a work from this set of surrealist and surrealist-adjacent pieces from the UMMA collection. 

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All Rights Reserved
Created by
Scott W Beal
Last Updated
May 25, 2022 2:06 p.m.

59 Items in this Learning Collection
At the Crossroads (En Rade)
Three birds, executed with spare line and simple form, are set within an abstracted landscape of bright yellows and oranges.
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Correspondances dangereuses
At the center of the etching are three or four amorphous figures in white and two shades of black, made in crosshatching. The figures are entwined and have animal and bird-like features. The background is crosshatched to the edges of the page. The print is signed (l.r.) "Max Ernst" and numbered (l.l.) "57/70" in pencil.
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Solomon 1:16: 'Our bed is green...', from the suite 'Solomon: Song of Songs'

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Creation of a Woman, II

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Bugeleisen (Iron)

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One of five prints from the suite "The Means to an End--A Shadow Drama in Five Acts"

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One of five prints from the suite "The Means to an End--A Shadow Drama in Five Acts"

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One of five prints from the suite "The Means to an End--A Shadow Drama in Five Acts"

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One of five prints from the suite "The Means to an End--A Shadow Drama in Five Acts"

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Now the Dove and the Leopard Wrestle
At the center of the painting, two animals meet: a horse and a bull. Painted in a variety of colors, the two animals are abstracted in a Cubist style. The painting is signed (u.r.) in black paint "Bearden". 
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Lenox Avenue
This is an abstract face of a figure looking to the right. The head is divided into compartments of varying textures by several straight lines. There are piano keys are on the left side of the head, and a cigarette at top left. 
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People

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The Riddle, Plate 4 from 'The Myth of Oedipus'

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Espace-temps en fusion
Winding through the center of this print, a melting clock oozes from the top right to the bottom center in red, yellow and blue. To the left of the base of the clock is a bright orange and red bolder. In the background, there is a large landscape with mountains and a cloudy sky. There are three figures in the scene. At the bottom right, a figure is seated with a staff and behind it is a large shape in yellow, red and blue. At the center, there is a sketch of a mounted figure on a rearing horse; and at the upper right, there is a figure with a strong shadow. The print is signed (l.r.) and numbered (l.l.) in pencil. 
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Télévision liquide et gazeuse
In this mixed-media print, there is a white background with black outlines of facial features, lips and an eye, and a creature in the bottom left. In the upper left corner there is a rectanglular sheet in cream layered on top; a wavy vertical design stretches diagonally from the top of the rectangle to the bottom in yellow, red, and blue. Within this sheet, there are small figures at the center left drawn in black. To the right in the sheet, there is a collaged image of one of the artist's paintings, incorporated into a cube. Above, there are drawn birds. There is a small mechanical-like figure on the sheet at the bottom left. At the center of the print, in the cream page, the artist signed "Dali" and dated the print "1975. To the bottom left, on the larger white page, there is text inscribed in the plate, mirrored and someone illegible, that possibly reads "Leill Ciclopeer Alucire la bouche Almient tire / Lula [illegible]." The print is number at the lower left in pencil.
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Underworld
This hand colored lithograph shows a chaotic scene with three, masked figures at the lower left surrounded by a variety of sea creatures: squids, octopusus, sharks and turtles. 
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The Underworld
This print shows a chaotic scene with a white skeleton in the center. In the upper left, there are a series of sea creatures, including a grey colored shark, pink colored squids and two octopuses in shades of orange. At the bottom of the print, the skeleton is surrounded by a large lizard, skulls, and other figures. A moon and stars are in the upper left corner. The print is signed (l.r.) "Underground Ann McCoy" and numbered "18/100" in red pencil.
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South Polar Quadrille

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Quetzal
This color lithograph has a bright yellow background with figures in red and white at the center. Horizontally oriented at the center is a large white semi-geometric creature with three heads—one at the bottom and two at the flanks—that is capped with horns and breasts. There is a red box-like figure in the background that has a horned head and a series of horns, wings, and flames emanating from it. The print is numbered, titled and signed (l.r.) in pencil: "no 57 - "Quetzal" / Wilfredo Lam".
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Sensations
Brightly-colored image of abstract shapes in hues of blue and red with white shapes giving the pieces a shining appearance.
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The Archeologists IV (Gli Archeologi IV); Plate VI from the suite "Metamorphosis" (Metamorphosis is underlined)

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Rhabdomancie
At the center of the print is a series of abstract bone-like shapes put together to resemble a creature or creatures. The background is colored, top to bottom, in blue, yellow, and green. The print is signed and dated (l.r.) "Yves Tanguy 1947" and numbered (l.l.) "57/70" in pencil.
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I Want To See It To Believe It
This vertical print is bisected by four horizontal light blue squares approximately one third of the way up from the bottom. The second square from the left is joined by a square above and below so that all the liight blue squares create a horizontally oriented cross. Both inside and outside the cross-grid there are seven tan figures, who seem to be engaged in a variety of activities. There are a number of designs that move out from the cross, some related to what is pictured inside and some not. The print is signed and dated (l.l.) "Matta 47" and numbered (l.r.) "57/70" in pencil.
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The Skyline (La Ligne d'horizon)

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Bestiaire. IV. Le Sang et la Race

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Bounded on the West by the Land Under Water
Four spare industrial structures rise at different angles into an empty landscape. On the viewer's right, a scaffolding rises from the lower corner and angles to the left. On the left, another scaffold structure runs from the bottom corner along the left edge. In the middle, a building-like structure rises from the bottom of the composition and leans into the visual space, resting on a long rectangular solid that is draped with a cloth.
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The Terror Stopper (Le Bouchon d'Epouvante), Plate VI from the series "Dawn at the Antipode (Aube à l'Antipode)

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Castronautes
In this print, there is a figure that is formed in the upper right with thick black lines. It floats above abstract circular line designs. There is a blue and purple background, with areas of light behind the figure, darker areas below the figure. The print is signed (l.r.) and numbered (l.l.) "5/100" in pencil.
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Turning Form

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Little Girl with Cherries (Expectation)
A girl at a table covered in fruit with a beach scene in the background
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Birds at Home
A color photograph of a group of children and a cat at a table. Each child engages with something in the room, which is in an organized disarray. Egg shells fall from the table to the floor, toys are strewn about, and an infant and cat sit in the middle of the table.
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Last Supper
A photograph of eight boys, all of which are the same person, voraciously eating a loaf of white bread off a rock in a forest.
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Allume tes gitanes
This black and white print shows the images of two pistols pointed at each other. Two large black abstract forms with vertical stripes sit underneath and above the two guns. At the lower right, there is a rectanglular box with the text "ALLUME TES / GITANES" and artist's signature "Man Ray", alongside an image comprised of half a glass bottle and abstract shapes and marks. The print is signed (l.r.) "Man Ray" and numbered (l.l.) "8/41" in pencil.
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Calling Radio Free America
This photolithographic print in shades of blue and rusty red is separated into three main registers. There are three television screens at the top, each with a different image: from left to right, a woman putting on her earrings as a man looks on, an American football game, and an image of a man in a suit from the chest up with the text Dr. Walter W. Heller. Below these images, there is a register with a grid of squares within squares with two large rectangular boundries; at the far right, two larger squares are stacked vertically. The bottom register of images shows a contemporary domestic kitchen, the colors of which are transected in two places, and, in the foreground, an oversized image of a female hand holding a sandwich and a fork with salad attached.
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Martha Graham—Lamentation
A composite print from two negatives, each representing a moment from a dance performance. The woman wears a large cloth, which she manipulates with her motions to create forms and shapes.
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Woman of the Woods
A photograph of two women standing outdoors. They stand next to a puddle of water, one left of center, one on the right side of the frame. Rows of trees extend into the background behind them.
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Self-Portrait in Time

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Equisetum Sylvaticum
This cyanotype photograph displays the silhouettes of six plant stems laid out in a row.
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Self-Portrait: Vertical Motion Up, Medium; Pivotal Motion Large
This photograph is a blurred and distorted portrait of a figure standing against a blank wall.
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Party Picture
The image depicts figures beneath three disco balls in three different horizontal compartments; one red, another yellow, and the third blue. 
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Untitled
A black and white photograph of droplets of water captured in suspension. Behind the water droplets, an eye is visible, though it is blurred by a shallow depth of field. In the water droplets, the eye is reflected upside down and in sharp focus.
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Untitled (Medusa Marinara)
A photograph of a female head made of pasta and marinara sauce printed on a porcelain plate. On verso, the plate is numbered "39;" it is labeled part of "The Peter Norton Family Christmas Project" and dated 1999; the manufacturer is labeled "Made in Bernardaud in Limoges, France;" and, below, it reads "Lead Free Dishwasher Safe."
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Three Eyes
Square-format photograph of three small sculptures with eyes printed on them organized in a stack, alongside a pair of spectacles.
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androgyforms (made from self & white t-shirt)
This work is a series of thirteen photographs of a person in a closet.  The figure is dressed in a white t-shirt and makes various poses pulling the t-shirt over their body in different ways. Of the thirteen, one photograph is just the white t-shirt hanging in the closet and one is a photograph of the t-shirt on the floor; in both of these images the figure is absent.
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In the Box - Horizontal
This monochrome photograph of a nude woman shows her reclining, knees bent; her figure framed by a large box. 
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Unititled

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Allegorical Composition
This abstract composition shows a fantastical, surreal structure comprised of angular shapes in many colors. A shadow is cast on the brown surface upon which the structure stands. 
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The Student (L'Etudiante)
On a narrow, vertically oriented canvas, white surreal biomorphic forms float over a background of larger biomorphic forms in dark blues and black with some red splashes. 
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The Elements: Leaf transformed into a torso
Yellow form centered on a white background; the form is in the shape of a leaf.
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Wives Waiting at a Mine Rescue

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Machines and El Patterns
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Male Venus

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Illuminated Landscape
Nocturnal scene with landscape populated by otherworldly pink, green, and blue flora and fauna resembling marine life or celestial bodies.
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Cradles in the Sea

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What We All Lack (Ce qui manque à nous tous)
A clear glass bubble rests on the bowl of a plain white clay pipe. Along the stem of the pipe are the words, "Ce que [sic] manque à nous tous."
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Figure with Spiders
At the center of this work, there is a red, yellow, and blue figure with a gold hoop earring in the right ear. Eight black spiders dangle from lines on each side of figure and a snake-like createure is at the top. The whole watercolor has a rusty-orange backdrop.
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Warriors

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Ah Puch
Bust of a figure from the chest up in three-quarters pose. The head, or perhaps a mask, is white, resembling a skull with a halo of white hair. The neck is dark brown with two white bands like chokers around it, perhaps securing the mask. The figure wears a dark red garment that is trimmed in ornate lace in white and gold. The background is a deep teal green-blue.
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Liberty Renewed

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History of Photography

Copyright
No copyright restrictions
Created by
Laura Vanessa Napier
Last Updated
May 25, 2022 2:06 p.m.

31 Items in this Learning Collection
Portrait of a Man
This photograph depicts a the top half of a suited man sitting before a painted backdrop of a sky. The image is hand-tinted in light colors and is set in a gilt frame inside an ornate leather-bound case.
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Eagle
Two nearly identical daguerreotypes are pictured one on top of the other. They both portray an eagle perched on a tree’s branch. The artist’s signature is typed in red lettering and arched upwards on the bottom center.<br />
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Photograph Book

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Untitled
A sepia-toned image of two children and a larger, seated figure draped in a blanket. The smaller child is an infant that sits in the lap of the seated figure and the larger child stands to the infant's right with an arm on the seated figure's leg. 
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Portrait of a Young Woman

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The Open Door

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Westminster Abbey
A square, brown-tinted image of the front of a stone cathedral. It has a central door and symmetrical pair of lancet windows. The top of the building is cropped out of the frame.
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Equisetum Sylvaticum
This cyanotype photograph displays the silhouettes of six plant stems laid out in a row.
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Thomas Leverton Donaldson
This photographic negative depicts an older man seated in an interior. His head is turned to the side and he wears a three-piece suit.
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Blackfriar's Chapel from the Northwest

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Engineering Corps
A group of soldiers stand and sit in a landscape; some face the camera while others are posed engaged in conversation. Behind them stand several tall trees and between them a tent with the flaps decorated with an American flag. Seated alone to the left is a young African-American man holding a broom.
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Thomas Leverton Donaldson
This photograph is a portrait of a seated man in a three piece suit. He holds an eye-glass in his right hand. 
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The City of Ambition
Photograph of the Singer Building in New York, located at Broadway and Liberty. Open to the public in 1908, it was the tallest building in America for one year. In 1968 it was the world's largest skyscaper to be demolished.
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Torso
This photograph depicts the torso and head of a nude woman. She holds her arm above her head and faces toward the left side of the frame.
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The Rose
This image is an unusually-formatted vertical and very narrow portrait of a young woman. The woman wears a long silk gown and holds a rose. 
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School Children
A group of children stand tightly packed together behind a wooden fence. None of the children appear to be facing the camera except for one girl in a gingham dress at the center of the photo. This girl, slightly smiling, displays the cover of a book she holds in her hand.
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New York City (man with cap, door on right)
A black and white photograph of a man, face half-shadowed, looking to the viewer&#39;s right. He wears a cap and loosely done collard shirt. A street food sign appears on the left.
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Lucille Burroughs, Daughter of a Cotton Sharecropper
The photograph is a portrait of a girl in a straw hat standing in front of a wooden fence.
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Sidewalk Scene, Selma, Alabama
View of a storefront with people sitting in front on benches and entering the shop through a doorway.
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Movie and Minstrel Show Posters on Brick Wall, Demopolis, Alabama
This is a photograph of the side of a building with two posters advertising a movie and circus.
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Rue St. Rustique, Monmartre
View of a passageway in Paris.
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Masque Antique
Antique mask with carved curly hair and an open mouth.
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Bar de Cabaret
Photograph of the interior of a bar with a mirror and staircase behind.
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Transmutations
A linen covered, velvet lined, clamshell folio, with gilt lettering on the spine and Arches Aquarelle Satin Rives paper for Brassaï's <em>Transmutations</em> portfolio.
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Untitled (4)
Four people donning costumes and masks standing in the foreground of a large grassy field.&nbsp;
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Two Callas
A photograph of two flowers side-by-side; their swirling forms disappear into the black background.
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Agave Design 1
A photograph of an agave plant. The plant is framed so that its straight leaves align with the architectural features of the background.
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Man Climbing Ladder, Plate III
This photograph is divided in a grid of two rows, each made up of eleven vertical images. In each of these frames, a naked man is shown climbing the rungs of a ladder. Each frame depicts the movement of his body as he makes his ascent.
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The Man from Papantla

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From the Radio Tower, Berlin
Photograph looking straight down onto a built landscape.
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Mrs. Herbert Duckworth

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Floral Prints and Objects

9 Items in this Learning Collection
Zinnias

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Spring Landscape
Landscape painting depicting a dirt pathway with steps and a wooden railing cutting through the center of the composition leading to a house on a hill in the distance. On either side of the path are blooming trees bearing pink and white blossoms in a green meadow.
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Roses and Flowers in a Glass
This painting depicts a glass vase with roses, phlox, and other flowers standing on a table. One pink rose lies next to the vase on the table; the background is an undifferentiated background of brown/tan.
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La Fleur

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Raffia Textile Panel
Tan rectangular panel consisting of various tan rectilinear shapes that are outlined with thin double black stitching appliqued onto the panel.
Collection Object
Plants from an Herbal: Chapter 429, Of Fumitorie. Page 927 (recto): 1. Common or purple, 2. White flowered; Page 928 (verso): 3. Fine leafed, 4. Yellow

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Flowering

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Sunflower III
This abstract print has a large dark red and black circular form in the top half of the frame and a large orange and red circular form in lower half.  Black splotches and expressive lines dominate and overlap much of the image.
Collection Object
Equisetum Sylvaticum
This cyanotype photograph displays the silhouettes of six plant stems laid out in a row.
Collection Object

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Equisetum Sylvaticum

Accession Number
1989/1.62

Title
Equisetum Sylvaticum

Artist(s)
Anna Atkins

Artist Nationality
British (modern)

Object Creation Date
1854

Medium & Support
cyanotype on paper

Dimensions
18 7/8 in x 14 3/4 in (48 cm x 37.4 cm);18 1/16 in x 22 1/16 in (45.88 cm x 56.04 cm)

Credit Line
Museum purchase

Subject matter
This photograph displays the silhouettes of six plant stems arrayed in a neat diagonal row against a blue background. Starting in the lower left corner, the sprigs fan out diagonally across the image to the upper right of the page. This camera-less photograph was made by laying the stems on chemically treated paper and then exposing it to sunlight. Because the plants blocked the light, their imprint is left after the print’s development. By virtue of this process, the delicacy of the plants’ forms is rendered in exquisite detail, their features represented as silhouettes. The blue of the print appears at once flat and full of depth, suggesting the forms within as almost floating in a blue expanse. Written in elegant script, the latin name for the plant is located in the lower right corner, indicating that each sprig represents a different stage of the plant’s growth.  This print then has a scientific function as well, offering a means of recording and classifying botanical specimens. 

Physical Description
This cyanotype photograph displays the silhouettes of six plant stems laid out in a row.

Primary Object Classification
Photograph

Collection Area
Photography

Rights
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Keywords
Plantae (kingdom)
Plants
Sphenophyta (division)
botany
contact prints
cyanotypes (photographic prints)
natural history specimens
photograms

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