Curator

Art Institute Chicago
Harvard art museum
My Exhibition

A work made of oil on canvas.

La Java, 1925

Georges Emile Capon

A work made of stoneware with celadon glaze and underglaze incised decoration.

Bird Shaped Ewer with Daoist Priest, Goryeo dynasty (918–1392), 12th century

Abstract painting in predominant shades of blue, green, and black, featuring diagonal bands of color and undulating lines.

Blue and Green Music, 1919–21

Georgia O'Keeffe

A work made of oil on canvas.

Resurrection of Christ, c. 1665

Samuel van Hoogstraten

A work made of watercolor over lithograph in black ink on ivory wove paper.

Inwood Park, 1964

June Leaf

A work made of oil on linen canvas.

Polynesian Woman with Children, 1901

Paul Gauguin

A work made of brush and colored ink and watercolor on ivory laminated paper board.

Exploratory Studies, 1969

June Leaf

Porcelain sculpture with pale-blue glaze, shape of a duck atop a lotus flower.

Incense Burner in the Form of a Duck, Song dynasty (960–1279), 12th century

A bisected rectangle, each side of which icludes a curved form seeming to represent a portion of a human body adorned in black lace undergarments.

Loose Beauty, 1973

Christina Ramberg

Black ink drawing of forested landscape, statue of woman holding child at pinnacle of mountain.

Statue of the Madonna in the Mountains, 1804

Caspar David Friedrich

A work made of acrylic on masonite.

Untitled, 1974

Christina Ramberg

Painting of a small, dark room with grey doors, grey wainscoting, and white walls. A blue bed with four pilllows is against the back wall. A painting hangs on that wall.

The Past and the Present, c. 1945

Gertrude Abercrombie

A work made of oil and graphite on canvas.

Nuclear I, CH, 1945

László Moholy-Nagy

A work made of oil on pulpboard.

Port of Bordeaux, 1914

André Lhote

Painting, heavy in tones of blue-green and burnt orange, depicting a bar scene at night. The men wear top hats and many are bearded; the women are dressed in voluminous gowns and decorative hats. Five people converse in the center of the composition and a woman with a green face dominates the right foreground.

At the Moulin Rouge, 1892/95

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

A work made of oil on canvas.

Wound Interrogation, 1948

Matta

A work made of wood-block print in black ink with touches of solvent-thinned blue, red, and orange watercolors (recto); wood-block print, printed twice in brown and brown-black ink (a maculature impression) (verso), on cream japanese paper.

Mahana atua (Day of the God), 1894/95

Paul Gauguin

A work made of wood-block print, printed in black ink with traces of residual brown ink, with selective wiping, over solvent-thinned and transferred and stenciled yellow, orange, red, blue, and green oil-based media, some containing beeswax and conifer resin (probably pine resin), with touches of brush and black ink, on medium-weight, smooth, pink wove paper (faded to tan).

L’univers est créé (The Universe Is Being Created), from the Noa Noa Suite, 1893–94

Paul Gauguin

A work made of oil on canvas.

Strange Worlds, 1928

Todros Geller

In vivid shades of red, orange, yellow, blue, and green, a grouping of row houses sits before an open expanse of land and winding, leafless trees. Everything is multicolored and outlined in thick strokes of deep blue. A figure bends down near a path.

Houses at Chatou, c. 1905

Maurice de Vlaminck