Hiram Powers
1805–1873
Greek Slave, ca. 1873
Marble
Museum purchase, gift of Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller 3rd, by exchange, and the Roscoe and Margaret Oakes Income Fund
sixty pieces of art I’ve seen and loved at various museums and other places. Big WIP.
Richard Cleaver
b. 1952
Mother, Springhouse (Oakland Plantation Series), 2005
Ceramic, wood, freshwater pearls, garnets, glass crystals, bronze wire, metal, gold leaf, and oil paint
Collection of Dorothy and George Saxe
Analía Saban
Born Buenos Aires, Argentina 1980
Mixografía print on handmade paper
Publisher: Mixografia, Los Angeles, CA
Red Grooms
Born Nashville, TN 1937
Deli, 2004
Two-dimensional lithograph
Publisher: Brooke Alexander and Marlborough Graphics, New York, NY
Damien Hirst
Born Bristol, United Kingdom 1965
The Last Supper: Corned Beef; Beans, Chips; Omelette; Salad; Sandwich; Mushroom Pie, 1999
Screenprints
Publisher: Paragon Press, London, UK
Ellsworth Kelly
Newburgh, NY 1923-2015 Spencertown, NY
Suite of Plant Lithographs (Part II), 1964-1965
Lithograph
Publisher: Maeght Editeur, Paris, FR
Ellsworth Kelly
Newburgh, NY 1923–2015 Spencertown, NY
Suite of Plant Lithographs: Pear, 1965-1966
Lithograph
Publisher: Maeght Editeur, Paris, FR
Donald Sultan
Born Asheville, NC 1951
Pomegranates, 1990
Aquatint etching
Publisher: Waddington Graphics, London, UK
Donald Sultan
Born Asheville, NC 1951
Silkscreen with enamel ink and tar-like texture
Publisher: Lococo Fine Art Publisher, St. Louis, MO
Roy Lichtenstein
1923–1997
Bull Profile Series: Bull I–VI, 1973
Screenprint, lithograph, linocut
Publisher: Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles, CA
Nancy Cohen
b. New York, 1959
Interior View, 2007
Handmade kozo paper
Gift of Dieu Donné, New York
George Inness
1825–1894
A Glimpse of the Lake, 1888
Oil on canvas
Gift of Betsy R. Dingwell and Sandra R. Jones in honor of their father, Carl A. Rietz
Thomas Hovenden
1840–1895
The Last Moments of John Brown, ca. 1884
Oil on canvas
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller 3rd
Horace Pippin
1888–1946
John Brown Going to His Hanging, 1942
Oil on canvas
Horace Pippin
1888–1946
The Trial of John Brown, 1942
Oil on canvas
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller 3rd
Alexander Pope
1849-1924
The Wild Swan, 1900
Oil on canvas
Museum purchase, gifts from members of the Board of Trustees, the M. H. de Young Museum Society, the Patrons of Art and Music, Friends of the Museums, and by exchange, Sir Joseph Duveen
George De Forest Brush
1855–1941
A Celtic Huntress, 1890
Oil on canvas
Museum purchase, partial gift of Roderick McManigal and funds from the Fine Arts Museums Foundation, Art Trust Fund, and the Ethel M. Copelotti Estate
James McNeill Whistler
1834-1903
The Gold Scab: Eruption in Frilthy Lucre (The Creditor), 1879
Oil on canvas
Gift of Mrs. Alma de Bretteville Spreckels through the Patrons of Art and Music
Mike Henderson
b. 1944
The Scream, 1966
Oil on canvas
Museum purchase, American Art Trust Fund, and gift of the Peter Lipman Foundation, an anonymous donor, and William Reller
Jefferson David Chalfant
1856–1931
Bouguereau’s Atelier at the Académie Julian, Paris, 1891
Oil on panel
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller 3rd
Karen LaMonte
b. 1967
Dress 3, 2001
Cast glass
Loan from Dorothy and George Saxe
Edmund Charles Tarbell
1862–1938
The Blue Veil, 1898
Oil on canvas
Gift of Henry K. S. Williams
Unknown
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Stela with Ix Mutal Ahaw, 761CE
Limestone
Museum purchase, gift of Mrs. Paul L. Watts
William Morris
b. 1957
Turkana Woman (Man Adorned series), 2001
Blown glass
Partial and promised gift of Dorothy and George Saxe 2001.123
Nicolas Africano
b. 1948
Untitled, 2007
Cast glass
Partial gift of Dorothy and George Saxe to the Fine Arts Museums Foundation 2008.75.5
Mary Ann (Toots) Zynsky
b. 1951
Sopratutto, 2007
Fused glass
Partial gift of Dorothy and George Saxe to the Fine Arts Museums Foundation 2008.75.178
Nicolas Africano
b. 1948
Untitled, 2006
Cast glass
Partial gift of Dorothy and George Saxe to the Fine Arts Museums Foundation 2008.75.4
Ronald Lockett
1965–1998
Fever Within, 1995
Found tin, colored pencil, and nails on wood
Museum purchase, American Art Trust Fund, and gift of the Souls Grown Deep Foundation from the William S. Arnett Collection 2017.1.38
Walter Kuhlman
1918–2009
Memento Mori, 1973–1974
Oil on canvas
Gift of Gary Spratt 2009.76
Edwin Walter Dickinson
1891–1978
The 'Cello Player, 1924–1926
Oil on canvas
Museum purchase, Roscoe and Margaret Oakes Income Fund 1988.5
Teikichi Hikoyama
1884–1957
Mt. Tamalpais, 1927
Oil on canvas
Museum purchase, Volunteer Council Art Acquisition Fund 2016.18
Chiura Obata
1885-1975
Artist materials, 2002
Various
Gift of the Obata Family, 2002
Mel Ramos
1935–2018
Superman, 1962
Oil on canvas
Jess (Burgess Franklin Collins)
1923–2004
If All the World Were Paper and All the Water Sink, 1962
Oil on canvas
Robert Motherwell
1915–1991
At Five in the Afternoon, 1950
Oil on hardboard
Unknown
Shinto Deity in the Guise of the Monk Hyeja, 12th Century
Wood with traces of pigment
Kate S. Buckingham Endowment, 2002.22
Jackson Pollock
American, 1912–1956
The Key, 1946
Oil on linen
Constantin Brancusi
Romanian, active France, 1876–1957
Leda, 1920
Marble
Ferdinand Hodler
Swiss, 1853–1918
Day (Truth), 1896/98
Oil on canvas
Joseph Winterbotham Collection, 1931.118
Honoré-Victorin Daumier
French, 1808–1879
Le Ratapoil, modeled 1851 (cast after 1925)
Bronze
Unknown
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Celestial Beauty (Apsara), 12th Century
Buff sandstone
Fritz Winter
German, 1905 - 1976
Antarctic Octopus, 1904
Lithograph on paper
Louis Joubin
French, 1861–1935
Melanoteuthis Lucens, 1920
Lithograph
Ernst Vanhöffen
1858–1918
The acrasped medusae of the German Deep-Sea Expedition, 1898–1899
Lithograph on paper
David Starr Jordan
1851-1931
The fishes of Samoa, 1906
Lithograph on paper
Alice Aycock
American, born 1946
From the series entitled “The Miraculating Machine: Mock Suns and Halos ‘Round the Moon” (1981), 1992
Screenprint on paper
Des Moines Art Center Permanent Collections; Gift of the Des Moines Art Center’s Print Club, 2016.22
Jay DeFeo
1929–1989
Mountain No. 2, 1955
Oil on canvas
Museum purchase, gift of the Friends of New Art1995.2
Florine Stettheimer
b. 1871; Rochester, NY - d. 1944; New York, NY
Sun, 1931
Oil on canvas
Beyte Saar
b. 1926; Los Angeles, CA
I’ve Got Rhythm, 1972
Mechanical metronome with wood case, plastic toy, American flag pin, paint, and paper collage
Jay DeFeo
b. 1929; Hanover, NH, d. 1989; Oakland, CA
The Rose, 1958–66
Oil with wood and mica on canvas
Unknown
Cycladic, 2900–2300 BCE
Marble
The William Albert Diamond, Jr. gift.
Unknown
Pakistan, Gandharan region
A Bodhisattva, 2nd/3rd Century
Gray schist
Unknown
Angkor Period
Bust of a Female Diety (Devi), 10th/11th Century
Sandstone
Julia Margaret Cameron
English, 1815-1879
Untitled (Ceylon), 1875/79
Albumen print
Lorna Simpson
Born 1960 in Brooklyn, New York; lives and works in Brooklyn
Wigs, 1994
Photolithograph on paper
U. T. Walker Special Purchase Fund, 1995
Unknown
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Cave Painting - Wolf, Circa 14,000 - 10,000 BCE
Natural Pigements on Rock
HACHIVI EDGAR HEAP OF BIRDS
Born 1954 in Wichita, Kansas; lives and works in Norman, Oklahoma
Telling Many Magpies, Telling Black Wolf, Telling Hachivi, 1989
Screenprint on Paper
Walker Special Purchase Fund, 1990
Helen Levitt
AMERICAN, 1913-2009
N.Y.C. (5 cent soda), 1939
Gelatin silver print, printed 2000
Kara Walker
American, born 1969
Keys to the Coop, 1997
Linocut on white wove paper
Restricted gift of Dr. and Mrs. Paul Sternberg, 1997.433
Alfred Stieglitz
American
Georgia O'Keeffe, 1919
Palladium print
From the Alfred Stieglitz Collection, 1949.745