Though Jefferson R. Burdick allegedly never attended a baseball game, a major part of his vast gift to The Met is one of the largest collections of baseball cards now held by any public institution.
During the Great Depression, the collecting and trading of baseball cards provided
Gold NecklaceThe striking way in which this piece, with its circular stone-set gold elements surrounded by small pearls, is stylistically reminiscent of the miniature of the zenana (harem) scene in the Met (30
Lac resin is placed in the depression, followed by a small amount of kundan or highly
All three grew up or trained or lived at various points in their lives in Harlem, and participated in the community in important ways.
referred to as the “hard, bright, and brittle� aspect of Harlem during the Depression
The Met presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy.
Fifty-seventh Street in November 1931, the city was in the throes of the Great Depression
By 1905, approximately 4,400 objects formed the nucleus of a collection of ancient Egyptian art at The Met.
For the next thirty years (1906–36), until financial problems created by the Depression
Childe Hassam
American Impressionists, he ignored social ferment and economic turmoil (including a depression
A deep hammered depression or concave fold runs vertically down the back of the hair
How have printmakers in the United States addressed a long history of inundation and the social inequities it exacerbates?
hundred printmakers, becoming a beacon of artistic production during the Great Depression
The Met presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy.
Bewick, were able to transform female living in rural and urban places, defying Depression
The Artist: Hugo van der Goes (ca. 1440–1482), born in Ghent, was one of the leading Flemish artists of the second half of the fifteenth century. Initially, Hugo followed in the grand tradition of the illusionism of Jan van Eyck’s paintings, with a palette of richly saturated colors and a clear organization of space that depended on single vanishing-point perspective
continued to paint and where Gaspar Ofhuys recorded Hugo’s descent into deep depression
