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A collection of early modern and modern prints that demonstrates the range of techniques and print media

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Created by
Celeste A Brusati
Last Updated
May 25, 2022 4:20 p.m.

13 Items in this Learning Collection
The Farnese Hercules
This impressively large engraving depicts the muscular back of a marble statue of a man. The figure leans upon a club draped with a lion skin and holds three apples in his right hand behind his back. Two men look up at the statue from the lower right corner of the print.
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St. Jerome Reading in an Italian Landscape

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The Circumcision (Life of the Virgin Series)
A crowd gathers in the side chapel of a church around a group of seated figures and an infant. A man with a long flowing beard sits and holds the infant in his hands above a plate, while another man leans forward in his chair and peers through his spectacles at the child as he performs a circumcision. A plaque with the artist's initials, "HG," lies on the floor in the foreground.
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An Apostle

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Fish and Lemon
This black and white print shows fish silhouetted in black at the bottom of the print slightly left of center. The background is various shades of gray created by criss-crossed lines, and a lemon hovers in the air in the upper right side of the print. 
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Le Maréchal de Castelnau

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Perseides

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Morning

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Small Worlds III
Within a black background a white oval shape sits at center; within the oval are a series of abstracted forms and lines in primary colors all characteristic of Kandinsky's style.
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Pompeii

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Kyoto (Positive/Negative)

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Composition

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Landscape with Trees and Distant View of a City
This is a brown pen and gray wash drawing in a horizontal format. It shows a sweeping landscape scene with a wooded area in the foreground and distant mountains in the background. In the lower left corner, there is a group of three figures seated among tall trees with full foliage. There are other groups of people positioned in this wooded area. Beyond the trees, there is a rural village with thatched roof buildings, church steeples and windmills. Farmland extends out into a distant mountain range on the right.
Collection Object

A collection of early modern and modern prints that demonstrates the range of techniques and print media

13 Items in this Learning Collection
The Farnese Hercules
This impressively large engraving depicts the muscular back of a marble statue of a man. The figure leans upon a club draped with a lion skin and holds three apples in his right hand behind his back. Two men look up at the statue from the lower right corner of the print.
Collection Object
St. Jerome Reading in an Italian Landscape

Collection Object
The Circumcision (Life of the Virgin Series)
A crowd gathers in the side chapel of a church around a group of seated figures and an infant. A man with a long flowing beard sits and holds the infant in his hands above a plate, while another man leans forward in his chair and peers through his spectacles at the child as he performs a circumcision. A plaque with the artist's initials, "HG," lies on the floor in the foreground.
Collection Object
An Apostle

Collection Object
Fish and Lemon
This black and white print shows fish silhouetted in black at the bottom of the print slightly left of center. The background is various shades of gray created by criss-crossed lines, and a lemon hovers in the air in the upper right side of the print. 
Collection Object
Le Maréchal de Castelnau

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Perseides

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Morning

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Small Worlds III
Within a black background a white oval shape sits at center; within the oval are a series of abstracted forms and lines in primary colors all characteristic of Kandinsky's style.
Collection Object
Pompeii

Collection Object
Kyoto (Positive/Negative)

Collection Object
Composition

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Landscape with Trees and Distant View of a City
This is a brown pen and gray wash drawing in a horizontal format. It shows a sweeping landscape scene with a wooded area in the foreground and distant mountains in the background. In the lower left corner, there is a group of three figures seated among tall trees with full foliage. There are other groups of people positioned in this wooded area. Beyond the trees, there is a rural village with thatched roof buildings, church steeples and windmills. Farmland extends out into a distant mountain range on the right.
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Perseides

Accession Number
1973/2.60

Title
Perseides

Artist(s)
Stanley William Hayter

Object Creation Date
1958

Medium & Support
aquatint with lifted ground on paper

Dimensions
19 7/16 in x 25 ½ in (49.37 cm x 64.77 cm);26 1/16 in x 32 1/16 in (66.2 cm x 81.44 cm);19 7/16 in x 25 ½ in (49.37 cm x 64.77 cm);11 ⅝ in x 14 3/16 in (29.53 cm x 36.04 cm)

Credit Line
Museum Purchase

Label copy
Stanley William Hayter
England, 1901–1988
Perseides
1958
Aquatint with lifted ground
Museum purchase, 1973/2.60
(Flip Your Field: Abstract Art from the Collection, June 9 – September 2, 2012, text by Celeste Brusati)

Primary Object Classification
Print

Collection Area
Modern and Contemporary

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Keywords
Surrealism
abstraction
modern and contemporary art

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