„Simple Gifts: Shaker at The Met“ features more than two dozen works from The Met’s permanent collection, including furniture, textiles, and tools, that reflect the Shakers‘ life and art.
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Friends of the American Wing Fund, 1966 (66.10.36a, b)
From before 1631 and until 1902, in the Giustiniani Collection, Rome; 1902, purchased from the Giustiniani family through Giuseppe Sangiorgi by Mrs. Frederick F. Thompson, New York; acquired in 1903, gift of Mrs
Catalogue of Greek Sculptures. no. 135, pp. 77–78, pls. 100a–b, Cambridge, Mass
Ratti Textile Center Modern and Contemporary Art 2 of 20 Soprano ophicleide in B-flat
Chordophone-Lute-plucked-fretted Credit Line: Gift of Steve Kahn, 2016 Object Number: 2016.787a, b
pencil’s hardness is indicated by a range of numbers and letters—"H" for hardness and "B"
Carly Still, assistant horticulturist at The Cloisters, discusses the importance of beauty and fragrance in the medieval appreciation of flowers.
Margaret B.
(6 × 4.3 cm) Classification: Sculpture-Stone Credit Line: Bequest of Nanette B.
Christensen, B. (1939). El teponaztli de Xicotepec.
Classification: Textiles-Woven-Brocade Credit Line: Gift of Inger G. and William B.
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About the authors This revelatory first look at the paintings of Lorna Simpson (b.
