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view "A TOKEN OF LOVE" Puzzle Bottle digital asset number 1
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"A TOKEN OF LOVE" Puzzle Bottle

Artist:
Unidentified  Search this
Medium:
carved and painted holly with metal foil in glass bottle
Dimensions:
8 3/8 x 1 7/8 x 1 7/8 in. (21.2 x 4.8 x 4.8 cm.)
Type:
Sculpture
Folk Art
Date:
ca. early 20th century
Topic:
Figure\fragment\hand  Search this
Object\written matter\book  Search this
Credit Line:
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Herbert Waide Hemphill, Jr. and museum purchase made possible by Ralph Cross Johnson
Object number:
1986.65.281
Restrictions & Rights:
CC0
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Department:
Painting and Sculpture
Data Source:
Smithsonian American Art Museum
GUID:
http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/vk761c4a48e-0187-442f-975f-2751e988316c
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:saam_1986.65.281
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"Child's Hand", (art work)

Artist:
Ross, Mary J. Miss  Search this
Type:
Art works
Exhibition Catalogs
Date:
1876
Topic:
Figure--Fragment--Hand  Search this
Figure--Child  Search this
Control number:
AECI 10090108
Data Source:
Pre-1877 Art Exhibition Catalogue Index
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_aeci_129654
view "Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men."--Jane Addams, Speech, Honolulu, 1933. From the series Great Ideas of Western Man. digital asset number 1

"Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men."--Jane Addams, Speech, Honolulu, 1933. From the series Great Ideas of Western Man.

Artist:
George Giusti, born Milan, Italy 1908-died 1990  Search this
Medium:
India ink and gouache on paper
Dimensions:
sheet: 24 1/2 x 18 1/4 in. (62.1 x 46.5 cm)
Type:
Drawing
Date:
1955
Topic:
Figure\fragment\hand  Search this
Allegory\other\civilization  Search this
Credit Line:
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Container Corporation of America
Object number:
1984.124.107
Restrictions & Rights:
Usage conditions apply
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Smithsonian American Art Museum Collection
Department:
Graphic Arts
Data Source:
Smithsonian American Art Museum
GUID:
http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/vk7eba19357-da8b-40f9-a6e6-e35fb2dbac0e
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:saam_1984.124.107
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"Cushing Original" Weathervane, (sculpture)

Sculptor:
Unknown  Search this
Medium:
Copper
Type:
Sculptures-Weather vane
Sculptures
Owner/Location:
Cornell University Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art Ithaca New York 14853
Date:
1955
Topic:
Figure--Fragment--Hand  Search this
Control number:
IAS 76002583
Data Source:
Art Inventories Catalog, Smithsonian American Art Museums
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_ari_1826
view "I never mutiny so much against France, that I am not perfectly friends with Paris...I love her tenderly, even to her wars and blemishes...But because it is, in truth my own humour, and peradventure not without some excess, I look upon all men as my compatriots, and embrace a Polander as a Frenchmen, preferring the universal and common tie to all national ties whatever."--Michel de Montaigne. From the series Great Ideas of Western Man. digital asset number 1

"I never mutiny so much against France, that I am not perfectly friends with Paris...I love her tenderly, even to her wars and blemishes...But because it is, in truth my own humour, and peradventure not without some excess, I look upon all men as my compatriots, and embrace a Polander as a Frenchmen, preferring the universal and common tie to all national ties whatever."--Michel de Montaigne. From the series Great Ideas of Western Man.

Artist:
Elaine Urbain, born Wauwatosa, WI 1925-died Milford, CT 2004  Search this
Medium:
glass mounted in plaster mounted in light box
Dimensions:
13 1/8 x 10 1/8 in. (33.3 x 25.7 cm.)
Type:
Decorative Arts-Glass
Date:
1950
Topic:
Figure\fragment\hand  Search this
Allegory\element\fire  Search this
Credit Line:
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Container Corporation of America
Object number:
1984.124.294
Restrictions & Rights:
Usage conditions apply
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Department:
Decorative Arts
Data Source:
Smithsonian American Art Museum
GUID:
http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/vk71034144e-a8b4-4fad-af34-ab551cada366
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:saam_1984.124.294
view "Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation; but of the adopted talent of another you have only an extemporaneous half possession."--Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1841. From the series Great Ideas of Western Man. digital asset number 1

"Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation; but of the adopted talent of another you have only an extemporaneous half possession."--Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1841. From the series Great Ideas of Western Man.

Artist:
Pedro Friedeberg, Mexican, born Florence, Italy 1937  Search this
Medium:
India ink, watercolor, colored ink, pencil, and opaque white on paper mounted on paperboard
Dimensions:
sheet: 18 3/4 x 14 3/8 in. (47.5 x 36.4 cm)
Type:
Drawing
Date:
1964
Topic:
Figure\fragment\hand  Search this
Figure\fragment\foot  Search this
Credit Line:
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Container Corporation of America
Object number:
1984.124.95
Restrictions & Rights:
Usage conditions apply
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Department:
Graphic Arts
Data Source:
Smithsonian American Art Museum
GUID:
http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/vk706dc73cd-734c-4369-b3f2-d5e4a46d159d
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:saam_1984.124.95
view "Men are men before they are lawyers or physicians or manufacturers; and if you make them capable and sensible men they will make themselves capable and sensible lawyers and physicians."--John Stuart Mill, Inaugural Address at St. Andrew's, 1867. From the series Great Ideas of Western Man. digital asset number 1

"Men are men before they are lawyers or physicians or manufacturers; and if you make them capable and sensible men they will make themselves capable and sensible lawyers and physicians."--John Stuart Mill, Inaugural Address at St. Andrew's, 1867. From the series Great Ideas of Western Man.

Artist:
Ben Shahn, born Kovno, Lithuania 1898-died New York City 1969  Search this
Medium:
brush and ink on paper mounted on paperboard
Dimensions:
sheet: 22 7/8 x 13 5/8 in. (58.1 x 34.6 cm)
Type:
Drawing
Date:
1955
Topic:
Figure\fragment\hand  Search this
Figure\fragment\face  Search this
Literature\Mill\Inaugural Address at St. Andrews  Search this
Credit Line:
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Container Corporation of America
Object number:
1984.124.264
Restrictions & Rights:
Usage conditions apply
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Smithsonian American Art Museum Collection
Department:
Graphic Arts
Data Source:
Smithsonian American Art Museum
GUID:
http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/vk79fe34c64-5408-4d11-b2df-601077b7e9fd
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:saam_1984.124.264
view "There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it."--Edith Wharton, "Vesalius in Zante," 1902. From the series Great Ideas of Western Man. digital asset number 1

"There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it."--Edith Wharton, "Vesalius in Zante," 1902. From the series Great Ideas of Western Man.

Artist:
Ellen Lanyon, born Chicago, IL 1926-died New York City 2013  Search this
Medium:
acrylic on canvas
Dimensions:
38 1/2 x 48 1/8 in. (97.8 x 122.2 cm)
Type:
Painting
Date:
1975
Topic:
Figure\fragment\hand  Search this
Animal\insect\moth  Search this
Dress\accessory\handkerchief  Search this
Object\flower\rose  Search this
Object\furniture\mirror  Search this
Object\other\candlestick  Search this
Credit Line:
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Container Corporation of America
Object number:
1984.124.169
Restrictions & Rights:
Usage conditions apply
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Department:
Painting and Sculpture
Data Source:
Smithsonian American Art Museum
GUID:
http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/vk7e5cd71f4-7d2b-4441-beab-8e5d02d81496
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:saam_1984.124.169
view "Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves, and, under a just God, cannot long retain it."--Abraham Lincoln, letter to H.L. Pierce, April 6, 1859. From the series Great Ideas of Western Man. digital asset number 1

"Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves, and, under a just God, cannot long retain it."--Abraham Lincoln, letter to H.L. Pierce, April 6, 1859. From the series Great Ideas of Western Man.

Artist:
Fred Conway, born St. Louis, MO 1900-died St. Louis, MO 1973  Search this
Sitter:
Abraham Lincoln  Search this
Medium:
encaustic on fiberboard
Dimensions:
47 7/8 x 36 in. (121.7 x 91.5 cm.)
Type:
Painting
Date:
1953
Topic:
Figure\fragment\hand  Search this
Occupation\political\president  Search this
Allegory\civic\liberty  Search this
Portrait male\head  Search this
Credit Line:
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Container Corporation of America
Object number:
1984.124.70
Restrictions & Rights:
Usage conditions apply
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Department:
Painting and Sculpture
Data Source:
Smithsonian American Art Museum
GUID:
http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/vk7b5280b1a-926c-4b3d-833f-ed4d99901eae
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:saam_1984.124.70
view "What man's mind can create, man's character can control."--Thomas Alva Edison, 1847-1931. From the series Great Ideas of Western Man. digital asset number 1

"What man's mind can create, man's character can control."--Thomas Alva Edison, 1847-1931. From the series Great Ideas of Western Man.

Artist:
Ben Sakoguchi, born San Bernardino, CA 1938  Search this
Medium:
intaglio on paper
Dimensions:
plate: 35 5/8 x 23 7/8 in. (90.5 x 60.5 cm)
Type:
Graphic Arts-Print
Date:
1965
Topic:
Figure\fragment\hand  Search this
State of being\phenomenon\dream  Search this
Landscape\imaginary  Search this
Figure\child\bust  Search this
Allegory\quality\temperance  Search this
Object\other\light bulb  Search this
Credit Line:
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Container Corporation of America
Object number:
1984.124.255
Restrictions & Rights:
Usage conditions apply
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Department:
Graphic Arts
Data Source:
Smithsonian American Art Museum
GUID:
http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/vk7f8c51230-9d48-46da-8a82-9361a6b49ca5
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:saam_1984.124.255
view "What the wise choose the unwise people take; what best men do the multitude will follow."--Bhagavad-Gita, Book III. From the series Great Ideas of Eastern Man. digital asset number 1

"What the wise choose the unwise people take; what best men do the multitude will follow."--Bhagavad-Gita, Book III. From the series Great Ideas of Eastern Man.

Artist:
Mohan B. Samant, born Goregoan, India 1926-died New York City 2004  Search this
Medium:
oil, gouache, gold leaf, and ink on paperboard
Dimensions:
sheet: 21 5/8 x 17 3/4 in. (55.0 x 44.9 cm)
Type:
Painting
Date:
1957
Topic:
Figure\fragment\hand  Search this
Figure male\torso  Search this
Figure female\knee length  Search this
Allegory\quality\prudence  Search this
Credit Line:
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Container Corporation of America
Object number:
1984.124.256
Restrictions & Rights:
Usage conditions apply
See more items in:
Smithsonian American Art Museum Collection
Department:
Graphic Arts
Data Source:
Smithsonian American Art Museum
GUID:
http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/vk7d6b5590c-4b65-46bd-8c04-2ff5baa1c408
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:saam_1984.124.256
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#5966, (painting)

Title:
Number 5966, (painting)
Painter:
Vavak, Joseph 1891-1969  Search this
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Type:
Paintings
Owner/Location:
University of Minnesota Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum 333 East River Road Minneapolis Minnesota 55455 Accession Number: 43.716
Date:
1941
Topic:
Architecture--Vehicle--Airplane  Search this
Architecture exterior--Industry--Factory  Search this
Figure--Fragment--Hand  Search this
Control number:
IAP 26030353
Data Source:
Art Inventories Catalog, Smithsonian American Art Museums
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_ari_428615
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(American School for the Deaf Founders Memorial), (sculpture)

Title:
Gallaudet Statue, (sculpture)
Sculptor:
Wadsworth, Frances Laughlin 1909-1978  Search this
Founder:
Bedi-Rassy Art Foundry  Search this
Subject:
Cogswell, Alice  Search this
Medium:
Bronze on a granite base
Type:
Sculptures-Outdoor Sculpture
Sculptures
Owner/Location:
Administered by City of Hartford Parks and Recreation Department 25 Stonington Street Hartford Connecticut 06106
Located Gallaudet Square Farmington Avenue & Asylum Avenue Hartford Connecticut 06106
Date:
1952. Dedicated April 15, 1953
Topic:
Portrait female--Full length  Search this
Figure--Fragment--Hand  Search this
State of Being--Disabled--Deaf  Search this
Object--Written Matter--Book  Search this
Control number:
IAS CT000080
Data Source:
Art Inventories Catalog, Smithsonian American Art Museums
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_ari_312360
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(Apple Symbols), (sculpture)

Design firm:
Sussman/Prejza & Company  Search this
Medium:
Sculpture: fiberglass, aluminum; Base: metal
Type:
Sculptures-Outdoor Sculpture
Sculptures
Owner/Location:
Apple Computer One Infinite Loop Cupertino California 95014
Date:
1993
Topic:
Animal--Dog  Search this
Object--Furniture--Clock  Search this
Figure--Fragment--Hand  Search this
Object--Art Tool--Artist's Brush  Search this
Object--Other--Writing Tool  Search this
Object--Other--Computer  Search this
Control number:
IAS CA001258
Data Source:
Art Inventories Catalog, Smithsonian American Art Museums
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_ari_336810
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(Battery Park Extension Group V: Flowing Water), (sculpture)

Sculptor:
Aschenbach, Paul 1921-  Search this
Ford, Bill  Search this
Dinan, Terry  Search this
Vesely, Bob  Search this
Wittenberg, John  Search this
Landscape architect:
T. J. Boyle and Associates  Search this
Medium:
Marble on concrete steps
Type:
Sculptures-Outdoor Sculpture
Sculptures
Owner/Location:
Administered by City of Burlington Department of Parks & Recreation Burlington Vermont 05401
Located Battery Park Extension Bottom of Park between, Battery & College Streets Burlington Vermont 05401
Date:
Summer 1974
Topic:
Abstract  Search this
Landscape--Water  Search this
Landscape--Waterfall  Search this
Figure--Fragment--Mouth  Search this
Figure--Fragment--Foot  Search this
Figure--Fragment--Hand  Search this
Control number:
IAS VT000112
Data Source:
Art Inventories Catalog, Smithsonian American Art Museums
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_ari_310461
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(Bell), (sculpture)

Designer:
Iosue, Robert B.  Search this
Medium:
Concrete, bronze, stained glass, and chain
Type:
Sculptures-Outdoor Sculpture
Sculptures
Owner/Location:
Administered by York College Division of Art Country Club Road York Pennsylvania 17405
Located York College Chapel York Pennsylvania
Topic:
Figure--Fragment--Hand  Search this
Object--Musical Instrument--Bell  Search this
Abstract  Search this
Control number:
IAS PA000583
Data Source:
Art Inventories Catalog, Smithsonian American Art Museums
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_ari_331778
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(Bust of Male Figure), (sculpture)

Sculptor:
Grant, Lowell 1921-1977  Search this
Medium:
Terra cotta
Type:
Sculptures
Topic:
Figure--Fragment--Hand  Search this
Figure male--Bust  Search this
Control number:
IAS 74270019
Data Source:
Art Inventories Catalog, Smithsonian American Art Museums
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_ari_299518
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(Clasped Hands), (sculpture)

Sculptor:
Unknown  Search this
Medium:
Red marble
Type:
Sculptures
Owner/Location:
Carson County Square House Museum P. O. Box 276 Panhandle Texas 79068 Accession Number: 927
Topic:
Figure--Fragment--Hand  Search this
Control number:
IAS 52010012
Data Source:
Art Inventories Catalog, Smithsonian American Art Museums
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_ari_24938
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(Clenched Fist), (sculpture)

Sculptor:
Unknown  Search this
Medium:
Wood
Type:
Sculptures
Owner/Location:
Onondaga Historical Association 311 Montgomery Street Syracuse New York 13202
Topic:
Figure--Fragment--Hand  Search this
Control number:
IAS 38160001
Data Source:
Art Inventories Catalog, Smithsonian American Art Museums
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_ari_29204
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(Hand of Liberty), (sculpture)

Sculptor:
Unknown  Search this
Medium:
Sculpture: metal hand and torch light fixture; Base: granite
Type:
Sculptures-Light fixture
Sculptures-Outdoor Sculpture
Sculptures
Owner/Location:
Administered by Prince Hall Masonic Lodge 683 Eddy Street Providence Rhode Island 02903
Located 883 Eddy Street Providence Rhode Island
Topic:
Figure--Fragment--Hand  Search this
Object--Other--Torch  Search this
Homage--Hall, Prince  Search this
Control number:
IAS RI000051
Data Source:
Art Inventories Catalog, Smithsonian American Art Museums
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_ari_319550

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