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Textile sample in red, black and white
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Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum Gift of Anni Albers
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Album of Drawings
Album of Drawings
1) Pen and brown ink brush and gray wash.
2) Pen and brown ink over black chalk.
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4) Black chalk.
5) Pen and brown ink over black chalk.
6) Pen and br...
Hydria (water jar): Perseus pursued by Gorgons
Hydria (water jar): Perseus pursued by Gorgons
On the shoulder: This scene depicts gorgons chasing after the hero Perseus, whose most famous accomplishment was beheading one of the gorgons, Medusa; presumably here we see the tw...
Sketchbook
Sketchbook
Sketchbook with black-leather-covered cardboard covers. Sewn page block; pages of off-white wove paper, each 27.2 x 20.8 cm. Drawings made in graphite and in vertical orientation...
Dance belt
Dance belt
362-187Hopi woven belt, faja (TK); wool; l. 239 cm., w. 9 cm.; ca. 1880.\Such belts were usually used by women to secure their dress, but on ceremonial occasions men adopted these ...
Neck Amphora (storage jar): Herakles and Erymanthian Boar; Warrior Farewell Scene
Neck Amphora (storage jar): Herakles and Erymanthian Boar; Warrior Farewell Scene
On one side: Herakles capturing the Erymanthian boar. The Erymanthian boar was a monster which plagued the central Peloponnese around Mt. Erymanthos, and it was one of Herakles’ la...
Breechcloth
Breechcloth
Breechcloth; probably Yanktonai; 1860-1870Wool, porcupine quills, sinew, metal, horsehair, pigments; 117.5 x 28.5 cm.\RMV 710-9; Herman F.C. ten Kate collection; purchased from tra...
Two Fragments of Band with Geometric Pattern
Two Fragments of Band with Geometric Pattern
Two tapestry woven fragments originating from the same textile. Red and dark-dyed wool and undyed linen wefts are woven on undyed linen warps. Both fragments feature the same geome...
Textile Fragment: Duck and Flowers
Textile Fragment: Duck and Flowers
Against a red background, a duck woven from undyed wool with red details walks along a slightly sloping, stylized ground line. The duck is framed by a thin square line of undyed wo...