Six collections / four cities
Where the worksare held. A collection has an address. An object has a longer story.
This schematic locates the cities of our represented holding institutions. It is not a map of objects’ origins, historical movement or current gallery display.
Four holding cities in the eastern United States. Choose a city using the controls below. N ↑ · Holding cities Chicago Cleveland New York Washington, D.C. Eastern United States · city-level schematic, not to scale. Holding location does not establish an object’s origin or current display. Chicago 1 collection ↗ Cleveland 1 collection ↗ New York 2 collections ↗ Washington, D.C. 2 collections ↗ All four cities and their collections follow below.
ⓘ The Bedroom Vincent van Gogh (Dutch, 1853–1890) · 1889 The Art Institute of Chicago · CC0 Painting / Source record
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Maker Vincent van Gogh (Dutch, 1853–1890)
Date 1889
Medium Oil on canvas
Collection The Art Institute of Chicago
Accession 1926.417
Credit Helen Birch Bartlett Memorial Collection
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How does a room become a portrait?
Browse this selection → Object context is a separate statement The Bedroom: Saint-Rémy-de-Provence.
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ⓘ Tea Table Carlo Bugatti (Italian, 1856–1940) · c. 1907 The Cleveland Museum of Art · CC0 Furniture and woodwork / Source record
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Maker Carlo Bugatti (Italian, 1856–1940)
Date c. 1907
Medium inlaid wood (mahogany?), cast and gilded bronze mounts, inlays of ivory or bone, metal, and mother-of-pearl (marine mussels or pearl oysters)
Collection The Cleveland Museum of Art
Accession 1991.45
Credit Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund
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When does furniture become sculpture?
Browse this selection → Object context is a separate statement Tea Table: France, Paris.
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ⓘ A vessel carrying boats Maker unrecorded · ca. 3500–3300 BCE The Metropolitan Museum of Art · CC0 49 represented works
What can a vessel carry besides water?
Browse this selection → Object context is a separate statement Decorated ware jar depicting boats: Egypt.
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ⓘ Dites Merci Meillier et Cie · ca. 1798 Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum · CC0 Textile / Source record
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Maker Meillier et Cie
Date ca. 1798
Medium Medium: cotton Technique: printed by engraved copper plate on plain weave
Collection Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
Accession 1943-43-12-a/d
Credit Gift of W. and J. Sloane
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How does a drawing prepare an object—or a plate transfer a pattern?
Browse this selection → Object context is a separate statement Dites Merci: Beautiran, France.
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ⓘ A Little Boy Desiderio da Settignano · 1455/1460 National Gallery of Art · CC0 Sculpture / Source record
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Maker Desiderio da Settignano
Date 1455/1460
Medium marble
Collection National Gallery of Art
Accession 1937.1.113
Credit Andrew W. Mellon Collection. Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington
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What happens when a surface is carved, remounted, or cut for printing?
Browse this selection → Object context is a separate statement A Little Boy: Place unrecorded.
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ⓘ Two magpies under an orchid cliff Possibly by Lü Ji (ca. 1420-ca. 1505); Formerly attributed to Zhao Chang (ca. 960-after 1015) · 15th century National Museum of Asian Art · CC0 Painting / Source record
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Maker Possibly by Lü Ji (ca. 1420-ca. 1505); Formerly attributed to Zhao Chang (ca. 960-after 1015)
Date 15th century
Medium Hanging scroll mounted on panel; ink and color on silk
Collection National Museum of Asian Art
Accession F1911.309
Credit Gift of Charles Lang Freer
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What stays visible when an object is painted, rejoined, or cancelled?
Browse this selection → Object context is a separate statement Two magpies under an orchid cliff: China.
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