Exchange: W23 Zeng - Complit 122 - Writing World Literatures (Sensing Cities)

W23 Zeng - Complit 122 - Writing World Literatures (Sensing Cities)

This colorful watercolor shows a crowded cityscape with streets appearing in consecutive horizontal bands, each with buildings or specific types of vehicles. High-rise buildings in the background and various smaller buildings, trains, and cars move along the streets in front. Clothes-lines hang between the buildings in the background. A yellow train passes in the foreground. The artists name appears on a white vehicle near the bottom left.

Vernon Jirgins
Chicago
1950 – 1960
watercolor | paper
Gift of The Daniel and Harriet Fusfeld Folk Art Collection
2002/1.185

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This vertical piece has a color photograph on the bottom showing people walking along a city street. Above are comic-strip-style illustrations in black acrylic on white paper, within five frames. The middle bottom frame of different style than the others. The title "Crocodile Tears: Buried Treasure" appears at the top, and the whole work is mounted and framed.

Douglas Heubler
Crocodile Tears: Buried Treasure (De Chirico V)
1990
photograph, acrylic | canvas
Museum purchase made possible by the W. Hawkins Ferry Fund
2008/1.160.1

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Photograph of a group of women protestors, smiling and holding posters, as they walk down a street fenced off to cars.

Garry Winogrand
Untitled
1963 – 1973
gelatin silver print | paper
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Douglas M. Kenyon
1983/2.147

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Photograph of a young man and woman stopped in the middle of the sidewalk to talk.

Garry Winogrand
Untitled
1961 – 1971
gelatin silver print | paper
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Douglas M. Kenyon
1983/2.150

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Photograph of metal chairs in a park adjacent to the Champs-Élysées Avenue in Paris. In the background, a woman walks by.

André Kertész
Chairs of Paris
1927
gelatin silver print | paper
Gift of Maxine and Lawrence K. Snider
2013/2.295

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This drawing shows a city climbing a hill along the bank of a river. The background is mostly grey, with faint washes of blue around the top and bottom edge to indicate sky and water. The blocky brown, pink, blue, grey, green, and yellow buildings have flat, black roofs and some windows are lit. Little black boats are lined up on the shoreline, and one is offshore flying the French flag. On the right, the tower of a church rises out of the water.

Victor Reinganum
View of Collioure
1952
gouache | paper
Gift of Mrs. Florence L. Stol
1964/2.35

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Night view of New York City skyscrapers seen from above.

Berenice Abbott
New York at Night
1932
gelatin silver print | paper
Museum purchase made possible by a gift from Helmut Stern and the Jean Paul Slusser Memorial Fund
2002/1.156

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Cityscape showing downtown Detroit against a reddish orange sky in 1947. Along the bottom edge of the painting, people wait to load a bus and several vehicles drive on a street perpendicular to them. Multiple buildings several stories tall line the background of the painting.

Carlos Lopez
Downtown Detroit
1947
gouache | paper
Gift of the J.L. Hudson Company
1956/1.90

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A photograph of the Holland House in New York City. Below the building is a wintery street; silhouetted pedestrians and carriages travel in front of the large hotel.

Alvin Langdon Coburn
The Holland House
1910
photogravure | paper
Gift of the Marvin Felheim Collection
1983/1.286

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A man stands in the threshold of a shop with meats and cheeses on display all around him.

Dmitri Baltermants
Butcher at the Open-air Market, Rome
1939 – 1990
gelatin silver print | paper
Gift of Thomas Wilson '79 and Jill Garling '80
2016/2.426

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