musee du louvre (paris, france) (3)
allentown art museum (1)
anderson, rosemary, 1951- (1)
biggs, marjorie l. (1)
bodfish, margaret, 1943- (1)
caufield & shook (photographer) (1)
luft, roswith (1)
museo archeologico nazionale (naples, italy) (1)
shapiro, rhona golfman (1)
hewett, ainslie, 1880-1963 (bookplate designer) (3)
matthews, kate, 1870-1956 (photographer) (2)
moore, henry (english sculptor, 1898-1986) (1)
tachibana, seiko (1)
benton harbor (mich.) (2)
michigan, lake (2)
pasadena (calif.) (2)
allentown (pa.) (1)
roman (ancient italian style) (6)
imperial (roman) (4)
relief prints (3)
frescoes (paintings) (2)
mural paintings (visual works) (2)
Description: element
Hall of the Colossus, Forum of Augustus, Rome, Italy, interior view, watercolor reconstruction.
Roman (ancient Italian style); Augustan; Imperial (Roman); Early Imperial
Shows "the end wall (frescoed) and the side wall (on the south side) with the reconstruction of the architectural order." (Caption, p. 145); "The Hall of the Colossus was deliberately set in the northeast corner of the Forum, at the end of the...
Elementum: prologue.
Artists' books--Specimens
Accordion structure from back pastedown. 14 intaglio prints. Text letterpress printed with papyrus font on arches cover paper. Bound in cloth boards. / "The elements of my work represent everything that I see, hear, breathe, and taste. Just as each...
Sunnyside, Louisville, Kentucky, 1926.
Historic buildings; Dwellings; Houses
Address 3020 Poppy Way. The application on the National Register of Historic Places-Inventory Form notes, ""Sunnyside is one of Louisville's few rural estate homes from the mid-nineteenth century to survive twentieth-century subdivision...
Jean Hutchison.
Bookplates; Labels
Woman in classical dress sitting with a scroll in her lap overlooking the water. The woman is framed by a circular border with decorative elements. The circle is contained inside a rectangular frame with a floral element in each of the four...
Frances Ingram.
Ornate design featuring floral elements and a key-shaped element with a scroll wrapped around it. The scroll at the top contains the phrase "Ex Libris." A panel contains a quotation and attribution: "Unto my good books so good to turn for ends of...
William Waller McBryde.
Trees and a castle in silhouette framed by a circular border with text. The border contains the text "He is never alone who is accompanied by noble thoughts." In front of the border is a knight in armor on a horse. Below the horse is a shield with...
Kate Fowler Merle-Smith/New York, New York.
Merle-Smith, Kate Fowler, 1888-
Roswith Luft Mainz West-Germany.
Anonymous women
Josephine Christie Jardine/Hoddesdon/England.
Jardine, Josephine Christie, 1899-
One of these students [of Josephine Jardine] was Marjorie L. Biggs who joined Josephine's classes in 1957 and who subsequently took over the teaching of the Ecclesiastical Embroidery work for the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles when Mrs Jardine...
Margaret Bodfish/Calif./USA.
Bodfish, Margaret, 1943-
I was born in Peoria, Illinois, 6 August 1951 -- a Leo with Virgo/Libra rising -- and have worked since I was about fourteen; I have a cat named Feminist, am an Air Force veteran, have B.A. degrees in art and in sociology, and still plan to get a...
F Golfman/Montreal/Canada.
Golfman, Freda Resnick, 1914-
This quilt was created by Rhona Golfman Shapiro. I am an artist, (fiber) teacher, and homemaker. I will begin studying in September/1980 for a Masters degree in Art Education.
On the beach.
Women; Beaches; Lakes & ponds; Waterfronts; Rocks; Sand
Two women are among rocks on the shore of Lake Michigan. One is standing and looking out at the water at what appears to be a large sailing ship leaning to one side. The other has stooped to pick up rocks or shells. The ship appears to be an...
Watchers.
Two women lean against rocks along the shore of Lake Michigan, looking out at the water. One is pointing at what appears to be a large sailing ship leaning to one side. The print is tinted and the ship appears to be an element that was added to the...
Barbarian warrior, front view.
Roman (ancient Italian style); Imperial (Roman)
"Images of barbarians, an essential element of triumphal ceremony in imperial Rome, were most often represented in a military context. […] [S]uch representations are omnipresent in Trajan's Forum, on the façade of the Ulpia Basilica, and along the...
Augustus as Supreme Pontiff, front view.
"This portrait of Emperor Augustus (27 B.C. - 14 A.D.) is a fragment of a full-length statue that was recarved into a bust and then set on an architectural element taken from another source. The chin, nose, and arch of the right eyebrow are...
Villa of Poppea, Oplontis, Italy, interior view, triclinium (14), west wall, detail of painted decoration, column decorated with gemstones and foliage.
Roman (ancient Italian style); Republican; Second Style
"The construction technique and decorations of the villa suggest that it must have been built around the middle of the first century B.C. Only about thirty years earlier the Roman general Lucius Cornelius Sulla had conquered Pompeii and installed a...
Working Model for Reclining Figure, (Internal and External Forms).
Modern (styles and periods); Modernist
"In formal terms, this sculpture manages to harmonize the claims of an aspiring, organic element within and the protective, enveloping characteristics of an outer casing. This is achieved via Moore's signature 'holes'. (Caption, p.68); "In Britain...
Isis, front, slight three-quarter view.
Roman (ancient Italian style); Imperial (Roman); Greco-Roman
"This head of Isis, turned to the right, with delicately parted lips, is almost entirely intact except for the ends of a few locks of hair and the left edge of her tiara. The neck stops at a recessed fitting, a tenon, indicating that the head must...
Workshop of Marcus Vecilius Verecundus, Pompeii, Italy, fresco, worker carding tunic and worker with reed cage.
Roman (ancient Italian style)
Fresco: "A young employee carding a tunic, and a second worker with a cage made of reeds on which fabric was stretched to be bleached with sulfur steam." (Caption, p. 137); "One of the liveliest shop fronts excavated in the early nineteenth century...