Artists often depict the built environment. We can visit some of the world’s most magnificent buildings and architectural innovations through artworks.
model 1902, fabricated 1902/1913, painted cast iron and bronze, Gift of Robert P.
Born in 1967 in Albuquerque, NM, Leo Villareal began experimenting with light, sound, and video while studying set design and sculpture at Yale University, where he received his BA. He then studied new media and computing at New York University’s interactive telecommunications program at the Tisch School of the Arts.
height of the wall, turning the profile of the open space into a backward-facing P.
Woman Holding a Balance is a superb example of Johannes Vermeer’s exquisite sense of stability and rhythm. A woman dressed in a blue jacket with fur trim stands serenely at a table in a corner of a room.
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Black ink with gray wash over graphite on laid paper Accession ID 1998.105.1.p
verso, vertically at upper right, in graphite by a later hand: Dublette, verglichen P–B
axis: 12:00 Accession Number 1957.14.1115.b Associated Artworks Filippo Cassoli
and Gift of Robert and Kerstin Adams, 2012.70.163 For 50 years, Robert Adams (b.
John Beale Bordley, a close friend of Charles Willson Peale, raised the funds in 1766 to send the young artist to London, where Peale trained under Benjamin West’s tutelage. In the stormy years before the American Revolution, Bordley was a Maryland planter, judge, and member of the Governor’s Council.
[b. 1928], Louisville, Kentucky; gift of Mr. and Mrs.
Discover works by Jacques-Louis David and learn about the artist
Black ink with gray wash over graphite on laid paper Accession ID 1998.105.1.p
ink over graphite with scratching-out on wove paper Credit Line Gift of William B.
