A somber monochrome watercolor of mayhem and dissent at sea. The depiction of a sinking raft, with one furled and one billowing sail, stretches from one side of the drawing to the other. Great, curved ...

A pear tree in full bloom dominates this early landscape by Klimt, the leading proponent of modernist painting in Vienna at the turn of the last century, when the city’s artists and designers rejected ...

Hatoum, a Palestinian born in Beirut, uses everyday objects and personal artifacts to examine the effects of exile and alienation. For this work she collected strands of her own hair and painstakingly ...

Series/Book Title: Les Bons Bourgeois (Le Charivari, 31 Dec. 1847), in Pickhardt, Vol. I The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, ...

At center, a male figure nude except for a loincloth floats above the ground in a stone archway of a darkened room, facing the viewer with outstretched arms. His eyes look upward and left as rays of ...

painting proper (irregular): H. 33 x W. 36 cm (13 x 14 3/16 in.) framed: H. 72 x W. 73.5 x D. 3.5 cm (28 3/8 x 28 15/16 x 1 3/8 in.) This record was created from historic documentation and may not ...

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Monet painted this composition at the end of a decade marked by the impressionists’ sustained experimentation with still-life painting. His depiction of this pair of common fish is indebted to the ...

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With her large body and frontal pose, the Virgin here functions as a throne for Christ, a visual expression of her status as the Mother of God and source of wisdom. While the symmetry and rigid ...

The painting shows a central figure with three figures on each side fanned out across the picture plane. The figures are abstract, the heads are vertical ovals, the oval on the figure is bright white, ...

One third of the spike, on the left, seems to be a handle. At the end on the left it is a flat round tube for a smaller stretch, before being shaped into several flat faces, the tube becoming ...