Curator

  • Art Institute Chicago
  • Harvard art museum
  • My Exhibition
A work made of oil on canvas.

Martin A. Ryerson, 1913

Louis Betts

A work made of oil on canvas.

Mrs. Martin A. Ryerson, 1912

Louis Betts

A work made of bound scrapbooks containing printed papers..

American Mural Painting Scrapbooks, 1929-1944 (bulk 1934-1944)

Ryerson and Burnham Libraries

A work made of linen, plain weave; underlaid with linen, plain weave; embroidered with gilt- and silvered-metal-strip-wrapped silk, linen and silk in knot, overcast, satin, split, and stem stitches; laid work, couching, and hemp, padded couching.

Orphrey Band, 1375/1400

Painting of a pond seen up close spotted with thickly painted pink and white water lilies and a shadow across the top third of the picture.

Water Lilies, 1906

Claude Monet

Loosely painted image of an open-air train station. On the right, a parked train gives off an enormous plumb of white smoke, making the scene look as though it were full of clouds. A huddled mass of barely discernible people crowd around the train on both sides of the tracks. Blue, green, and gray tones dominate.

Arrival of the Normandy Train, Gare Saint-Lazare, 1877

Claude Monet

A work made of silk, brocaded in silk and metal thread.

17 Fragments, 18th century

Painting of two fishermen in small wooden boat on rocky seas.

The Herring Net, 1885

Winslow Homer

A work made of gold.

Aureus (Coin) Portraying Emperor Gordian III, 239 (late July-December), issued by Gordian III

Ancient Roman

Impressionist sea landscape, tan houses, blue ocean, distant mountains.

The Bay of Marseille, Seen from L'Estaque, c. 1885

Paul Cezanne

Small iron sculpture of a dragon with a serpentine body, legs with talons, and long tail, all made of moveable joints.

Articulated Dragon, c. 1880

School of Myochin

A young woman peers out to the right from from a Dutch door whose bottom half is closed. She wears a brown dress with a corset and a red beaded necklace.

Young Woman at an Open Half-Door, 1645

Workshop of Rembrandt van Rijn

A work made of linen, plain weave; embroidered with silk, linen, and gilt-metal-strip-wrapped linen in back, a variety of buttonhole, chain, square chain, cross, long-armed cross, eyelet, herring bone, threaded herringbone, knotted, interlocking lace, overcast, running, double running, satin, and stem stitches; couching; edged with linen and gilt-metal-strip-wrapped linen bobbin lace.

Panel (Judith with the head of Holofernes, Possibly from an Altar Frontal), c. 1590

A work made of gold.

Aureus (Coin) Portraying Emperor Otho, 69 (January-April), issued by Otho

Ancient Roman

Green glazed vessel decorated with floral adornments, tapered and flared at the neck, with two small cylindrical handles.

Jar with Tubular Handles, Peonies, “Endless Knot,” Pendant Balls, and Pendant Lozenges, Qing dynasty (1644–1911), Qianlong reign mark and period (1736–1795)

Painting of a light-skinned woman dressed in a gauzy white gown with black trim playing an upright paino.

Woman at the Piano, 1875–76

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

A work made of terracotta, red-figure.

Bell Krater (Mixing Bowl), about 450 BCE

Ancient Greek

Painting of softly rendered shapes in pale blue, green, and white. A textured green mass at left resembles foliage. Blue and white cloud-like forms fill the rest of the frame.

Branch of the Seine near Giverny (Mist), 1897

Claude Monet

Apples and grapes rest in a shallow wicker basket on a table covered with a light-colored cloth. Additional fruit is scattered on the table.

Apples and Grapes, 1880

Claude Monet

A work made of silk, warp-float faced 7:1 satin weave with supplementary binding warps tying some three color complementary self-patterning ground wefts in plain interlacings.

Panel, c. 1724/27

more >>>