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Part of: The Moon: A Silent Titan  (33 resources )
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The Moon: A Silent Titan 

The Moon has been looming overtop of humans since before recorded history. The silent counterpart to the mighty sun, the moon is ever present in our eyes, our minds, and in our imagination. The way the moon has been weaved into different mythologies, religions, traditions, and cultures from all around the world is astounding but also not surprising, as the moon is something we all experience. This introspective look at artworks featuring the Moon strives to make comparisons between works that span centuries and many different style and mediums, all of whom share the same goal of depicting something we see every night, the Moon. 

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Created by
Casey Rae DeMoss
Last Updated
May 25, 2022 12:28 p.m.

33 Items in this Learning Collection
The Four Times of Day: Night
This print is vertically oriented with gray markings. A cream border surrounds it and it has “NIGHT” written below it. The lower half of the print has a busy street scene with lots of people taking parts of several stories (e.g. someone empting a chamber pot on people on the street, a tipped over carriage that is being set on fire, a quack doctor performing an operation in a candlelit room). The upper half of the print shows the tops of the buildings that line the street, iron-wrought shop signs, a statue of a man on horseback in the distance, and a crescent moon in a cloudy sky.
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Untitled
This print is an abstract composition in black, white and lavender. In the upper right, there is a black circle on a white background shape. The left and lower portions are made up of black shapes. At the lower center, a lavendar rectangular form is also included, overlapped by a black shape that is slightly broken up by thin white lines. The print is numbered (l.l.) "275/300" and signed (l.r.) "Louise Nevelson" in pencil.
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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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Sultana's Dream: Leaving the House
No. 3 of a series of 27 prints. A simple, two-tone palette.&nbsp; A woman looks out from a second-story window on a moonlit night. Outside, a disembodied hand seems to beckon her. On the street below a man sleeps atop a rickshaw, while another man and dog sleep nearby. &nbsp;<br /> Sultana&#39;s Dream was printed and published by Durham Press in 2018.<br /> &nbsp;
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The Black Tree + Mountain
This photograph depicts a hilly landscape enveloped in fog and low-lying clouds. In the foreground stands a black leafless tree.
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Flight of Night

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Virabhadra plaque

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La Ultima Cena del General Sandino
A group of men sit at a round table drinking. The full moon is seen through a window on the right.
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The Kiss
This work is a photomontage of a couple kissing. The image of the couple has been cut into squares and disjointed, pasted over a scene of a moon and river.
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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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Moeurs conjugales. Pl. 53: Madame Anastasie Boujot est de première force...

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Sultana's Dream: Justice is Virtue
No. 5 of a series of 27 prints. A simple, two-tone palette.&nbsp; A human figure, who appears to have three heads and three arms, stands before a large, moon-like circle. One right arm holds a balance scale, while two monkeys sit on the left arm. At the feet of the figure are a peacock and a lizard-type creature.<br /> Sultana&#39;s Dream was printed and published by Durham Press in 2018.
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VIII. ETOILES FILANTES - Cover sheet for printed musical composition (poem by Ri

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Evening Scene in Tokyo: Bon Dance
A circle of festival-goers dances under a full moon. They only appear in silhouette, but the shapes of their kimono and fans in hand can be seen.
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Arabian Nights. Pl. 11. The Tale of the Ebony Horse. "He went up to the couch and found a young lady asleep, chemised with her hair as she were the full moon rising over the Eastern horizon..."

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Coyote

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Nayika who casts away her jewels
The painting depicts a scene at night with a panel of text at the top. A central female figure sits on a rectangular carpet gazing upwardly at a male face. Three female attendants are standing beside her. A moon shines in the background. 
Collection Object
Les Quartre Parties du Jour: La Nuit ou le Claire de Lune
A nocturnal scene with ships, a dockyard, and a mountain range in the background.  People are gathered in the foreground partaking in various activities, illuminated in part by the moon and its reflection on the sea, as well as by a fire.
Collection Object
Afro-Cuban Dancers and Percussionists
This print shows two figures dancing in front of three musicians by the water with a moon in the sky and reflected in the water. A far away seaside fort is visible in the upper left corner.&nbsp;
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Crescent Moon (Matsue in Izumo)
A man ferries a passenger along a river at sunset. The buildings and stone walls along the river are reflected along with the colorful sky above.
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Stereoscope Image, Sample Set No.2: The Moon Age 9 Days
This black and white stereoscopic image features two images of a moon
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Moon Shot

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Famous Views of Snow, Moon and Flowers: Trout Fishing by Moonlight on the Tamagawa River
The dark color pallette and the moon indicate that the image is set at night. There are people standing in the water, bending over in search of fish. Others stand on the bank, helping with the fishing process. Also shown are the silhouettes of a bridge over the water and the mountains in the distance.
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Galileo Showing Milton the Moon while Milton is on a Visit to Italy in 1637
A group of men with one woman discussing the moon in a room with a large opening on the left side.
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Moon Worshippers (Prayer to the Moon)

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Moon over Lausanne
Three figures stand in the bottom left corner. The image is mostly tan and light blue except very dark in the center. The blue horizon line is in the top third of the image stretching from a cityscape on the left side to a sweeping hill on the right side. There is a small moon in the middle at the very top of the image.
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Moon Over Cypress
This is a colorful abstract print with geometric shapes in blue, yellow, green and red outlined in black. There are also three white areas with black line drawings that depict a plant in a flower pot and two cypress trees in the bottom section and a landscape with mountains and a yellow moon in the upper right portion.
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Danza de la media luna
Centered on the page, this print shows two figures dressed in long robes. One figure wears a blue robe with maroon circles and the other is the opposite. Each faceless figure, carries a knife in one hand. On their heads are headdresses with a black cap and large white half-moon shape attached. The figures look like they are in motion.
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The Night Riders of Nacton, Plate II (The Large Field near Biles's Corners)

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Illuminated Landscape
This print has an abstract, monotone composition of irregular shapes set against a dark background. Two stars are at the top of the print alongside a white orb that looks like a moon. The print is numbered (l.l.) "15/20", titled (l.c.) "Illuminated Landscape" and signed (l.r.) "Chet La More" in pencil. 
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Autumn Moon at Mt. Dongting
Dark, wet ink wash and light accents of color capture the lyrical mood of an autumnal moonlit night at Lake Tai and Mount Dongting. A round moon hangs low in the sky at top right, with a diffuse glow slightly brightening the clouds and sky below. Two islands sit in the water below, the larger (closer) of the two has four boats moored just offshore. Up close the boats appear as freely brushed lines, and yet at a distance, their forms come into focus. A building sits on the closer island, light shining in the windows. The silhouette of a pagoda can be seen on the further island.
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Moonlight Over Albuquerque

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Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico
Photographed at dusk, this image depicts a waxing gibbous moon rising above a flat, desert landscape. In the foreground, along with some other small structures and trees, is a small church and a cemetery.  
Collection Object
Draft

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Created by
Cecilio M Cooper
Last Updated
May 25, 2022 12:28 p.m.

35 Items in this Learning Collection
Cousin du Diable
An oil painting on canvas, this is an abstract painting predominantly using black and white oil paints. The background appears to be white paint with a black box on the upper half. The two colors are connected by a long black brushstroke down the middle. The brushstroke does not touch the edges of the canvas but instead takes up 2/3 of the canvas length-wise and 1/3 width-wise.&nbsp;
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Untitled
This print has rows of stencilled black text in all capital letters on white background. In pencil, the print is signed and dated (l.r.) "Glenn Lignon '92" and numbered (l.l.) "27/45". 
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Untitled
This print has rows of stencilled black text in all capital letters on white background. In pencil, the print is signed and dated (l.r.) "Glenn Lignon '92" and numbered (l.l.) "27/45". 
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Untitled
This print has rows of stenciled black text in all capital letters on black background. In pencil, the print is signed and dated (l.r.) "Glenn Lignon '92" and numbered (l.l.) "27/45". 
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Untitled
This print has rows of stencilled black text in all capital letters on black background. In pencil, the print is signed and dated (l.r.) "Glenn Lignon '92" and numbered (l.l.) "27/45". 
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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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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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Black Magic / Continuation of Mynona's Gray Magic (Schwarze Magie / Fortsetzung von Mynonas grauer Magie)
A heavily inked, multi-layered multi-media image with tinges of color. On the left hand side of image, an older gentleman in turban and beard can be made out. The background is dark inks and washes, bleeding into man's figure. Bottom edge of paper carries inscriptions from Kubin (handwriting matches other samples).
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Voids and Tangents, from "Voids and Tangents"

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Voids and Tangents, from "Voids and Tangents"

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Voids and Tangents, from "Voids and Tangents"

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Voids and Tangents, from "Voids and Tangents"

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Wherefore War
Grey, black and white in color. There is a large black creature (snake-like) in the center. Below is dark (water or underground), and there are hundreds of skulls floating. In the grey areas (possibly land?), there are hundreds of soldiers wearing black, in formation.
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Sandblaster
Manual laborer with protective headgear working below ground.
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Sounds of Dawn

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Night Sounds

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Day and Night

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A Black and White Rainbow
This vertically oriented print has a black background and an uneven gray line down the center.
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Black Quartered Arc

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Square

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Untitled, from "Ten Works + Ten Painters"

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Third Street Bridge, Los Angeles
Black and white image of powerlines and two lit streetlights at night. 
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Dead Center (State I)
A black background dotted with white spots that resembles a night sky. Just left of center is a light shape like a comet streaking from the bottom towards the top of the image. The comet shape resembled a figure with its arms crossed in front of it.
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Soldatengrab zwischen den Linien (Soldier's Grave between the Lines), from "Der Krieg"

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The Flood
In an ominous landscape a crowd of nude men, women and children, their bodies silhouetted against the descending gloom, struggle frantically to escape rising floodwaters. The figures gesture wildly and strenuously twist their long athletic bodies into a seemingly infinite variety of contortions as they clamber up the last hilltops and trees. A city stands on a hill and appears through the trees in the background.
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Black Egg, Nov. 18
Two dark circles in top right and bottom left corners of the image.
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Black Palm
black dyed wood vase with exggerated texture fibers
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Black Flag

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Black, White Gray

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The Black Tree + Mountain
This photograph depicts a hilly landscape enveloped in fog and low-lying clouds. In the foreground stands a black leafless tree.
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Untitled, (Volcanic Crater, Death Valley)
A black and white photo of bushes growing in a volcanic crater.
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Smoke Rings
Square black and white photograph depicting three smoke rings that float in the air against a black backdrop. The rings appear in a diagonal pattern, one in the lower left corner, one in the center and one in the upper right corner. The ring in the lower left hand corner appears to be more complete, while the other two are more abstract.
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Turkish Mambo: from 'Black Series II'

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Pas de Deux - Black Dancer (A two-part piece)
First part of the hand built ceramic black color figure of a dancer.
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Marriage of Reason and Squalor
This print shows a black horizontal rectangle in the lower left portion of an off-white background. The rectangle is divided in half and each side has a pattern of stripes that create the appearance of inverted u-shaped forms stacked one on top of the other. <br />
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The Moon has been looming overtop of humans since before recorded history. The silent counterpart to the mighty sun, the moon is ever present in our eyes, our minds, and in our imagination. The way the moon has been weaved into different mythologies, religions, traditions, and cultures from all around the world is astounding but also not surprising, as the moon is something we all experience. This introspective look at artworks featuring the Moon strives to make comparisons between works that span centuries and many different style and mediums, all of whom share the same goal of depicting something we see every night, the Moon. 

33 Items in this Learning Collection
The Four Times of Day: Night
This print is vertically oriented with gray markings. A cream border surrounds it and it has &ldquo;NIGHT&rdquo; written below it. The lower half of the print has a busy street scene with lots of people taking parts of several stories (e.g. someone empting a chamber pot on people on the street, a tipped over carriage that is being set on fire, a quack doctor performing an operation in a candlelit room). The upper half of the print shows the tops of the buildings that line the street, iron-wrought shop signs, a statue of a man on horseback in the distance, and a crescent moon in a cloudy sky.
Collection Object
Untitled
This print is an abstract composition in black, white and lavender. In the upper right, there is a black circle on a white background shape. The left and lower portions are made up of black shapes. At the lower center, a lavendar rectangular form is also included, overlapped by a black shape that is slightly broken up by thin white lines. The print is numbered (l.l.) "275/300" and signed (l.r.) "Louise Nevelson" in pencil.
Collection Object
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.
Collection Object
Sultana's Dream: Leaving the House
No. 3 of a series of 27 prints. A simple, two-tone palette.&nbsp; A woman looks out from a second-story window on a moonlit night. Outside, a disembodied hand seems to beckon her. On the street below a man sleeps atop a rickshaw, while another man and dog sleep nearby. &nbsp;<br /> Sultana&#39;s Dream was printed and published by Durham Press in 2018.<br /> &nbsp;
Collection Object
The Black Tree + Mountain
This photograph depicts a hilly landscape enveloped in fog and low-lying clouds. In the foreground stands a black leafless tree.
Collection Object
Flight of Night

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Virabhadra plaque

Collection Object
La Ultima Cena del General Sandino
A group of men sit at a round table drinking. The full moon is seen through a window on the right.
Collection Object
The Kiss
This work is a photomontage of a couple kissing. The image of the couple has been cut into squares and disjointed, pasted over a scene of a moon and river.
Collection Object
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. 
Collection Object
Moeurs conjugales. Pl. 53: Madame Anastasie Boujot est de première force...

Collection Object
Sultana's Dream: Justice is Virtue
No. 5 of a series of 27 prints. A simple, two-tone palette.&nbsp; A human figure, who appears to have three heads and three arms, stands before a large, moon-like circle. One right arm holds a balance scale, while two monkeys sit on the left arm. At the feet of the figure are a peacock and a lizard-type creature.<br /> Sultana&#39;s Dream was printed and published by Durham Press in 2018.
Collection Object
VIII. ETOILES FILANTES - Cover sheet for printed musical composition (poem by Ri

Collection Object
Evening Scene in Tokyo: Bon Dance
A circle of festival-goers dances under a full moon. They only appear in silhouette, but the shapes of their kimono and fans in hand can be seen.
Collection Object
Arabian Nights. Pl. 11. The Tale of the Ebony Horse. "He went up to the couch and found a young lady asleep, chemised with her hair as she were the full moon rising over the Eastern horizon..."

Collection Object
Coyote

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Nayika who casts away her jewels
The painting depicts a scene at night with a panel of text at the top. A central female figure sits on a rectangular carpet gazing upwardly at a male face. Three female attendants are standing beside her. A moon shines in the background. 
Collection Object
Les Quartre Parties du Jour: La Nuit ou le Claire de Lune
A nocturnal scene with ships, a dockyard, and a mountain range in the background.  People are gathered in the foreground partaking in various activities, illuminated in part by the moon and its reflection on the sea, as well as by a fire.
Collection Object
Afro-Cuban Dancers and Percussionists
This print shows two figures dancing in front of three musicians by the water with a moon in the sky and reflected in the water. A far away seaside fort is visible in the upper left corner.&nbsp;
Collection Object
Crescent Moon (Matsue in Izumo)
A man ferries a passenger along a river at sunset. The buildings and stone walls along the river are reflected along with the colorful sky above.
Collection Object
Stereoscope Image, Sample Set No.2: The Moon Age 9 Days
This black and white stereoscopic image features two images of a moon
Collection Object
Moon Shot

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Famous Views of Snow, Moon and Flowers: Trout Fishing by Moonlight on the Tamagawa River
The dark color pallette and the moon indicate that the image is set at night. There are people standing in the water, bending over in search of fish. Others stand on the bank, helping with the fishing process. Also shown are the silhouettes of a bridge over the water and the mountains in the distance.
Collection Object
Galileo Showing Milton the Moon while Milton is on a Visit to Italy in 1637
A group of men with one woman discussing the moon in a room with a large opening on the left side.
Collection Object
Moon Worshippers (Prayer to the Moon)

Collection Object
Moon over Lausanne
Three figures stand in the bottom left corner. The image is mostly tan and light blue except very dark in the center. The blue horizon line is in the top third of the image stretching from a cityscape on the left side to a sweeping hill on the right side. There is a small moon in the middle at the very top of the image.
Collection Object
Moon Over Cypress
This is a colorful abstract print with geometric shapes in blue, yellow, green and red outlined in black. There are also three white areas with black line drawings that depict a plant in a flower pot and two cypress trees in the bottom section and a landscape with mountains and a yellow moon in the upper right portion.
Collection Object
Danza de la media luna
Centered on the page, this print shows two figures dressed in long robes. One figure wears a blue robe with maroon circles and the other is the opposite. Each faceless figure, carries a knife in one hand. On their heads are headdresses with a black cap and large white half-moon shape attached. The figures look like they are in motion.
Collection Object
The Night Riders of Nacton, Plate II (The Large Field near Biles's Corners)

Collection Object
Illuminated Landscape
This print has an abstract, monotone composition of irregular shapes set against a dark background. Two stars are at the top of the print alongside a white orb that looks like a moon. The print is numbered (l.l.) "15/20", titled (l.c.) "Illuminated Landscape" and signed (l.r.) "Chet La More" in pencil. 
Collection Object
Autumn Moon at Mt. Dongting
Dark, wet ink wash and light accents of color capture the lyrical mood of an autumnal moonlit night at Lake Tai and Mount Dongting. A round moon hangs low in the sky at top right, with a diffuse glow slightly brightening the clouds and sky below. Two islands sit in the water below, the larger (closer) of the two has four boats moored just offshore. Up close the boats appear as freely brushed lines, and yet at a distance, their forms come into focus. A building sits on the closer island, light shining in the windows. The silhouette of a pagoda can be seen on the further island.
Collection Object
Moonlight Over Albuquerque

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Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico
Photographed at dusk, this image depicts a waxing gibbous moon rising above a flat, desert landscape. In the foreground, along with some other small structures and trees, is a small church and a cemetery.  
Collection Object

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The Black Tree + Mountain

Accession Number
2012/1.240

Title
The Black Tree + Mountain

Artist(s)
Wynn Bullock

Artist Nationality
American (North American)

Object Creation Date
1956, printed 1965

Medium & Support
gelatin silver print on paper

Dimensions
10 in x 8 in (25.4 cm x 20.32 cm)

Credit Line
Gift of Margaret and Howard Bond

Subject matter
This photograph depicts a view of a hilly landscape enveloped in fog. Rising from a hillside in the lower right portion of the image, the black, scraggily form of a leafless tree stands starkly against the misty landscape. The hills and trees beyond fall away in the distance, obscured by the thick bank of fog. Above, shining through a passing bank of low-lying clouds, the sun’s radiance casts rays of light along the lining of the clouds and mist. As this photograph was exposed for the brightness of the sun’s rays, the rest of photograph is shrouded in hazy gray. The clouds passing before the sun appear to roil and seethe, almost resembling the light of a full moon at night. This atmospheric effect, enhanced by the barren silhouette the tree, whose empty branches reach bleakly against the light of the setting sun, creates a brooding ambience.

Physical Description
This photograph depicts a hilly landscape enveloped in fog and low-lying clouds. In the foreground stands a black leafless tree.

Primary Object Classification
Photograph

Collection Area
Photography

Rights
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Keywords
atmosphere
clouds
fog
hills
landscapes (environments)
mountains
sunlight
suns (stars)
sunset
trees

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