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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

image proper: H. 90.4 × W. 53.5 cm (35 9/16 × 21 1/16 in.) silk mounting only: H. 157.5 × W. 73.3 cm (62 × 28 7/8 in.) mounting, including cord and roller ends: H. 163 × W. 78.5 cm (64 3/16 × 30 7/8 ...

A group of five adults in various poses stand in front of a railing with their backs to us. One lady in a kimono holds a child’s hand. A skinny man on left grips the railing as he points to Mt Fuji.

The printed book is bound in green boards. A palm tree centered on the front cover has the words “Edward Ruscha” printed in white, vertically. Only the image of the tree is on the spine.