A somber monochrome watercolor of mayhem and dissent at sea. The depiction of a sinking raft, with one furled and one billowing sail, stretches from one side of the drawing to the other. Great, curved ...

Hatoum, a Palestinian born in Beirut, uses everyday objects and personal artifacts to examine the effects of exile and alienation. For this work she collected strands of her own hair and painstakingly ...

A long flat piece of mottled dark olive green jade with white flecks, is carved into a vertical rectangular shape with inward curving sides. The short, top side curves more sharply inward to form two ...

The vessel has a wide shallow rim and two horizontal handles and one long handle which connects to the rim. In red, black, and yellow there is a scene in two tiers. The lower tier depicts a man ...

Former Title: Circular Attachment with Rectangular Tang Extending from Top, Lion or Dragon facing right with traces of gilding on head and gold wires hammered into grooves on body, wings (?) and hind ...

In the foreground at center, lying on the hard desert ground, are the bodies of four men dressed in robes and cloth headdresses. Two more slain bodies are seen at left, and two more at right. Behind ...

At center, a male figure nude except for a loincloth floats above the ground in a stone archway of a darkened room, facing the viewer with outstretched arms. His eyes look upward and left as rays of ...

The textile is approximately rectangular with irregular edges and some lost areas. Saint Theodore’s flesh is worked in shades of undyed, pale pink, and tan, threads and he wears an off-white robe with ...

A scene in which the sky is vast and stormy, and the ground seems barren. On a hilltop a woman wearing blue cloth draped over her head and body holds a man who limply leans on her. She has a round ...

A prodigy of the Harlem Renaissance, an influential cultural movement of the 1920s and ’30s, Lawrence forged a distinctive approach to painting that drew on elements of cubism and modern design to ...

With her large body and frontal pose, the Virgin here functions as a throne for Christ, a visual expression of her status as the Mother of God and source of wisdom. While the symmetry and rigid ...

Purchased from the artist by William Graham, London, 1877 (£2,000); his sale, Christie's, London, April 2-4, 1886, no. 161 (£1,732 10s.); purchased at that sale by Thomas Agnew and Sons, London; ...