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Visual Art
Artists, Photographers, Sculptors, and Architects
Work | Desc. | Artist | Nationality |
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Death on a Pale Horse | Based on an excerpt from the book of Revelations, this painting depicts the four horsemen of the apocalypse | Benjamin West | |
Villa Savoye, namesake “House”, Villa La Roche, Open Hand Monument, Philips Pavilion, National Museum of Western Art, Citrohan House | Architecture. | Le Corbusier | Swiss-French |
Women’s Table, Vietnam Veterans Memorial | Architecture. | Maya Lin | American |
Louvre Pyramid, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Dallas City Hall, Carrousel du Louvre | Architecture. | I.M. Pei | Chinese-American |
Farnsworth House, Seagram Building, Ernst & Young Tower, Villa Tugendhat, Pulse House | Architecture. | Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe | German-American |
The Glass House, Seagram Building, 550 Madison Avenue, Rothko Chapel, Roofless Church, 191 Peachtree Tower | Architecture. | Philip Johnson | American |
Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Walt Disney Concert Hall, Dancing House, Museum of Pop Culture, Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial, Biomuseo | Architecture. | Frank Gehry | Canadian-American |
Fallingwater, Frederick C. Robie House, Imperial Hotel Tokyo, Ennis House, Unity Temple, Inn at Price Tower, Midway Gardens | Architecture. | Frank Lloyd Wright | American |
Watson and the Shark | Based on an attack in the Havana harbor in 1749, several people in a small boat save an English boy from the title animal | John Singleton Copley | |
Portraits of George Washington | Depicts George Washington in a variety of styles | Gilbert Stuart | |
Arrangement in Grey and Black | A profile view of the artist’s mother, also known by the name "The Artist’s Mother" | James Whistler | |
Birds of America | This book is a series of over 400 paintings of the title animal | John James Audubon | |
The Gross Clinic | Depicts the surgery of an anesthetized patient as a crowd of (presumably) medical students watches | Thomas Eakins | |
Gulf Stream | Shows a small fishing boat with no rudder or sail fighting against the waves while surrounded by sharks | Winslow Homer | |
The Banjo Lesson | An old man sits in a wooden chair, teaching a small child to play the title instrument while he sits on his lap | Henry Tanner | |
Washington Crossing the Delaware | Depicts the title figure crossing a river while an American flag flies near him | Emmanuel Leutze | |
The Gallery of the Louvre | Shows a variety of artworks being hung in the title art museum while people dance in the foreground | Samuel Morse | |
Portrait of Madame X | Depicts a young French socialite standing in a black dress while she looks to the side | John Singer Sargent | |
America Today | A series of murals depicting everyday life in the 1920s, such as trains, planes, and people laboring in factories | Thomas Benton | |
American Gothic | Two old white people in front of a farmhouse, one of which holds a pitchfork | Grant Wood | |
Daughters of the Revolution | Three old white ladies in front of an old painting | Grant Wood | |
Three Flags | A series of three increasingly smaller canvases stacked on top of each other, each with identical painting of the American flag | Jasper Johns | |
A sculpture consisting of a taxidermy goat with a tire around its midsection | Monogram | Robert Rauschenberg | |
A series of colorful portraits of the title model | Shot Marilyns | Andy Warhol | |
Campbell’s soup cans | Campbell’s Soup Cans | Andy Warhol | |
Cartoonishly depicts a plane shooting down another plane with the title onomatopoeia above them | Whaam! | Roy Lichtenstein | |
Depicts Donald Duck goes fishing with the title mouse | Look Mickey I've Hooked a Big One!! | Roy Lichtenstein | |
A deep blueish-black flower, which is supposed to represent the female genitalia | Black Iris | Georgia O'Keefe | |
Depicts large desert hills with bones in the foreground | Red Hills and Bones | Georgia O'Keefe | |
A black and white painting with angular strokes and shapes depicting the title room | Attic | Willem de Kooning |