A bronze sculpture by Augusta Savage portraying a boy holding his stomach and grimacing in pain. It is titled on the front of the base: "Green Apples." It is signed on the top of the base with the artist's monogram, "Savage" lettered vertically within...
Description:
Augusta Savage (1892-1962), African American sculptor associated with the Harlem Renaissance.
Subject (Name):
Savage, Augusta,--1892-1962
Subject (Topic):
African American sculptors and Sculptors--United States
A full-length standing figure of a boxer carved in wood by Leslie Garland Bolling. He incised the title "The Boxer" in the front edge of the surface on which the figure stands, and "Sept. 13th 33" and "LGBolling" on the back edge. A metal plate attach...
Alternative Title:
Wild Cat.
Description:
Gift of Carl Van Vechten.
Subject (Name):
Bolling, Leslie Garland, 1898- artist
Subject (Topic):
African American boxers--Portraits, African American sculptors--Virginia, African Americans in art, and Sculptors--Virginia
A portrait of an unidentified woman of the Taos Pueblo draped in a mulit-color shawl and holding a sleeping infant. The painting is oil on board and is inscribed at lower right: "D. E. Brett/Taos/1928." On the verso is an inscribed title, "The Eternal...
Description:
Dorothy Brett, British-American painter. Brett was born in England and studied at the Slade School of Art and University College, London. In London, she was close friends with notable authors such as Virginia Woolf and D. H. Lawrence. In 1924, Brett w...
A head of a woman carved in wood by Leslie Garland Bolling. It is unsigned and undated. A metal plate attached to the front of the base gives the title as "Woman's Head."
Description:
Gift of Carl Van Vechten.
Subject (Name):
Bolling, Leslie Garland,--1898-
Subject (Topic):
African American sculptors--Virginia, African Americans in art, and Sculptors--Virginia
Two watercolor drawings made in and around the Central Utah Relocation Center near Delta, Utah, by Japanese prisoners of war. The first is an untitled landscape view of the Topaz Valley, the site of the center; it measures 28 x 39 cm and is signed at ...
Description:
Purchased from William Reese Company (PBA Galleries sale, San Francisco, 2013 July 11, lot 253) on the Arthur Corbitt Hoskins Memorial Fund, 2013.
Subject (Geographic):
Sevier Desert (Utah)--Pictorial works
Subject (Name):
Central Utah Relocation Center--Pictorial works and Mikami, Charles Erabu,--1902-1998
Subject (Topic):
Artists--United States, Concentration camps--United States--Pictorial works, and Japanese Americans--Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945
A portrait of the English poet Alexander Pope by Jonathan Richardson the Elder, with Pope portrayed seated and supporting an open book with his proper left hand. The painting is oil on canvas, inscribed "POPE" at the lower left corner.
Alternative Title:
Alexander Pope resting on an open book and Alexander Pope, full-length, seated, his left hand resting on
an open book
Description:
Alexander Pope (1688-1744), English poet.
Subject (Name):
Pope, Alexander,--1688-1744 and Richardson, Jonathan,--1665-1745
Subject (Topic):
Artists--Great Britain and Authors, English--18th century--Portraits
Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns), 1888-1965, associated name
Published / Created:
n.d.
Call Number:
YCAL MSS 932
Image Count:
1
Abstract:
One black wool vest lined with polished cotton, which was made by the tailor J.C. Littlefield of Boston and owned by T. S. Eliot. The maker's tag on the inside of the back buckle strap was signed: "T. S. Eliot Sept. 27/06." The vest was given by Eliot...
Description:
Gift of Jane Thompson Ritchie, 1979.
Subject (Name):
Eliot, T. S.--(Thomas Stearns),--1888-1965 and Ritchie, Andrew Carnduff,--associated name
