Curator

Art Institute Chicago
Harvard art museum
My Exhibition

A section drawing of a car in an aerodynamic bullet shape with two visible wheels, two rows of seats, and mechanical details.

Dymaxion Car, Section, 1933

Richard Buckminster Fuller

Small white porcelain cups with circular patterns and no handles.

Pair of Cups, Qing dynasty (1644–1911), Yongzheng reign mark and period (1723–1735)

Black and white photograph of women, lips pursed, against wood paneled wall.

Alabama Cotton Tenant Farmer's Wife, 1936, printed c. 1962

Walker Evans

Painting of a dark gray skyscraper in the glaring sun. The bright sun reflects off of the tall, looming building, which is painted from the perspective of a passerby looking up at the building. The light blurs out the top of the building, and dots of yellow light appear lower down and on nearby buildings.

The Shelton with Sunspots, N.Y., 1926

Georgia O'Keeffe

A work made of leaded glass.

Hartwell Memorial Window, 1917

Tiffany Studios (Firm)

A pair of wood end tables designed as a total cubic form, each an isosceles triangle with rectangular voids at the endpoints.

Gingold Living Room End Table (2 of 2), c. 1943

Rudolph Michael Schindler

Mrs. Herbert Duckworth, April 1867

Julia Margaret Cameron

Medium sized olive colored urn, upper half carved into figures and structures.

Funerary Urn (Hunping), Western Jin dynasty (A.D. 265–316), late 3rd century

Long scroll drawing, upper half is script; lower half depicts people in courtyard.

Group Pilgrimage to the Jizo Nun, 1755/65

Ike Taiga

Sculpture of wooden panels shaped like an abstract chair with a deep narrow base.

Lever #1, 1988/89

Martin Puryear

Bright exaggerated painting of aging showgirl with feathered hairpiece and garish makeup.

Minnie, 1974

Ed Paschke

Long painted scroll, green, brown mountains, wooden house, Amida Buddha on cloud.

Legends of the Yūzū Nembutsu Sect, Kamakura period (1185–1333), 14th century

White marble statue of machinist assistant with sketchbook and cogs.

Machinist's Apprentice, c. 1859

Emma Stebbins

White marble statue of machinist with hammer, anvil, and cogs.

Machinist, c. 1859

Emma Stebbins

Black and white photograph of outdoor event, two girls in white dresses walk under large American flag.

Fourth of July, Jay, New York, 1954

Robert Frank

Shiny silver cup with lid, two handles with leaf designs

Two-Handled Covered Cup, 1698–1720

Cornelius Kierstede

A triptych glass window in an oak frame with an asymmetrical geometric pattern of circles, squares, and rectangles in clear, red, green, blue, and black glass.

Triptych Window from the Coonley Playhouse, Riverside, Illinois, 1912 (removed 1967)

Frank Lloyd Wright

A work made of lithograph in black on light gray china paper laid down on white wove paper.

Des Esseintes, Frontispiece for A Rebours by J.K. Huysmans, 1888

Odilon Redon

A sandstone sculpture of a cow, its head turned out toward the viewer, with a baby calf suckling underneath.

Cow Suckling a Calf, About 9th century

Cream-colored bust of General Andrew Jackson in his military uniform.

General Andrew Jackson, 1819

William Rush