Artist: Seated Nkisi Figure ( - )
Artworks in Museum Collections: (100)
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Robert Dighton Seated Nkisi Figure wood with blaack surface coating, resin, porcelain 19th century
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Artist: Kongo Title: Nail Figure Date: 20th century Medium: wood, natural fibers, nails Dimensions: H.15-3/4
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Bernard Karfiol - Seated Figure before 1924 oil on canvas Los Angeles County Museum of Art American
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Juan Gris - Seated Figure 1920 pencil Arkansas Arts Center Spanish
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Richard Diebenkorn - Seated Figure with Hat 1967 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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Lorser Feitelson - Seated Figure 1919 oil on paperboard Smithsonian American Art Museum American
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Cham (AmÈdÈe Charles Henri de NoÈ) Seated male figure Earthenware 300 BC - 300
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Utagawa (Igusa) Kuniyoshi Seated figure with dog on one shoulder Earthenware 300 BC - 300
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Utagawa (Igusa) Kuniyoshi Seated female figure Earthenware 300 BC - 300
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Joseph Goldyne Seated figure or whistle Earthenware AD 600–900
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Sito Conte Seated female figure clay 200 - 500
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Sito Conte Seated figure vessel clay 300 BC - 300
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Orchard Painter Seated draped male figure terracotta 350 BC - 250 BC
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APZ Painter Seated Female Figure terracotta circa 400 BC
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Anonymous Seated figure holding bowl Earthenware 300 BC - 300
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Sito Conte Nail and blade Oath Taking Image (nkisi nkonde) wood, metal, nail, horn branches and glass 19th century
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Cham (AmÈdÈe Charles Henri de NoÈ) Seated female figure with body paint Earthenware 300 BC - 300
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Orchard Painter Female nude figure seated terra cotta 350 BC - 250 BC
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Roy Carruthers Seated Figure color lithograph 20th century
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Sito Conte Seated female figure terracotta circa 16th century
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Orchard Painter Seated figure wearing Phrygian terra cotta 2 - 1st century BC
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Varney Masalay Seated figure with hands on knees wood 20th century
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Orchard Painter Seated female figure with wreath on head terra cotta 350 BC - 250 BC
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Harold Altman Seated Figure etching 20th century
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Orchard Painter Seated half-draped male figure terra cotta circa 330 BC - 200 BC
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Hans Mettel Seated Figure Color lithograph 1954
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Utagawa (Igusa) Kuniyoshi Whistle in the form of a seated figure with hands bound behind back Earthenware 300 BC - 300
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Artist: Nok Title: Seated Figure Date: 500 B.C. - 500 A.D. Medium: terracotta Dimensions: H.8-1/2
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Varney Masalay Seated figure wood, paint, cloth, string, and leather 20th century
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Varney Masalay Seated female figure nude; seated on bench with curved legs; hands on kneesa wood, powdered camwood bark, nails, inlaid pot metal eyes early 20th century
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Kyosai (Gyosai) Seated Male Figure brush and ink 19th century
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Barthe'le'my Prieur Seated Nude figure on pedastal bronze early 17th century
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William H. Brown Seated Figure with Checkered Tablecloth charcoal, black and grey wash 1964
The Minneapolis Institute of Arts -
Artist: Sir Edward John Poynter Title: Seated Nude Figure of a Man Date: 19th century
The Minneapolis Institute of Arts -
Artist: Pierre-Paul Prud"hon Title: A Seated Female Nude Date: about 1793 Medium: black and white
J. Paul Getty Museum -
Miniature Throne
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Pendant with seated figure Greek Geometric Period 750–700 B.C. Bronze Height: about 10 cm (3
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Rose Gonzales Chief's ceremonial staff with seated, full length figure wood, metal, brass, tacks 20th century
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Harry A. Schary Sketchbook of Mexican Scenes; Domed buildings, seated figure graphite 19th - 20th century
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Study of a Nude Boy
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Giovanni Balducci Recto:Figure of a Man~Verso: Studies of Seated Male Figure and a Foot r:Black and white chalk on gray laid paperv: Red, white and black chalks 16th - 17th century
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Anonymous Seated Male Figure Opaque watercolor and gold on paper with text, mounted to heavier sheet 18th century
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Claude Mellan Seated female figure classic sculpture Engraving 16th - 17th century
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Anonymous Seated Male Figure Watercolor and opaque watercolor with trace of gold on paper mounted to another sheet with decorative borders 19th century
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Cham (AmÈdÈe Charles Henri de NoÈ) Eight standing figurines Earthenware 300 BC - 300
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Gabriel Jacques de Saint-Aubin Sheet of Studies of Female Seated Figure pen and brown ink over black and red chalk on cream laid paper circa 1750 - 1780
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Pierre-Jacques Volaire (le Chevalier Volaire) Seated Female Figure, viewed from rear drawing: graphite and chalks 18th century
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Pierre-Jacques Volaire (le Chevalier Volaire) Seated Male Figure, viewed from the rear drawing: graphite and chalks 18th century
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Seated male effigy figure Tunjo Muisca A.D. 1100-1550 Copper and gold alloy 7.3 x 2.4
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Pierre-Jacques Volaire (le Chevalier Volaire) Study of Seated Male Figure, viewed from the rear drawing: graphite and chalks 18th century
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Pierre-Jacques Volaire (le Chevalier Volaire) Studies of a seated female figure viewed from the rear drawing: graphite and chalks 18th century
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Seated Figure, 6th century; Maya Maya peoples; Mexico or GuatemalaWood; H. 14 in. (35.6 cm)The
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Seated Buddha FIgure Indian Southern India, Tamilnadu, possibly Tanjore district, (possibly Melayur), about 9th century
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Pierre-Jacques Volaire (le Chevalier Volaire) Study of a Female Figure viewed from rear, seated, leaning on her left arm drawing: graphite and chalks 18th century
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Seated figure of Nefersefu Egyptian Old Kingdom Dynasty 5, 2500-2350 B.C. Limestone Height x width
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Seated figure of Tjetety Egyptian Old Kingdom Dynasty 6, 2350-2170 B.C. Limestone Height x width
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Willem de Kooning - Seated Man c. 1939 oil and charcoal on Hirshhorn Museum American
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George Grosz - Seated Man 1923 pencil Arkansas Arts Center American
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Seated Bodhisattva Figure Chinese Tang dynasty, Tang dynasty, 2nd quarter of the 8th century China
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Ventura Salimbeni Recto: Studies of a Male and a Female Standing Figure~Verso: Seated Female Figure Black chalk on laid paper prepared with a red ground, mounted to a heavier sheet that has been cut out with an irregular left edge to show figure on the v
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Buddhist figure seated in Pensive Pose Chinese; from the Longmen caves, Luoyang, Henan Northern Wei
The Metropolitan Museum of Art -
Statuette of a seated harp player, ca. 2800-2700 B.C.; late Early Cycladic I-Early Cycladic II
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Sandro Chia - Man Seated at Table 1984 charcoal and pencil Arkansas Arts Center Italian
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Jean-Francois Millet - Seated Shepherdess c. 1852 oil on canvas Minneapolis Institute of Arts French
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Auguste Rodin - Seated Nude n.d. watercolor with grap Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester French
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Wilhelm Lehmbruck - Seated Youth 1917 composite tinted pla National Gallery of Art German
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Frank Decker Duveneck - Seated Nude c. 1879 oil on canvas The Detroit Institute of Art American
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Isidore-Alexandre-Augustin Pils - Seated Arab n.d. oil on canvas Dahesh Museum of Art French
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Juan Gris - Seated Harlequin c. 1920 oil on canvas Minneapolis Institute of Arts Spanish
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Andre Derain - Seated Nude 1925 Lithograph Arkansas Arts Center French
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Arthur B. Carles - Seated Nude c. 1915-1920 oil on canvas Hirshhorn Museum American
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Pierre Auguste Renoir - Seated Bather 06/01/1903 oil on canvas The Detroit Institute of Art French
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Boris Zaborov - Seated Child 1985 acrylic Arkansas Arts Center Russian
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William Bailey - Seated Nude 1966 pencil on paper Hirshhorn Museum American
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Pablo Picasso - Seated Bather 1930 oil on canvas The Museum of Modern Art Spanish
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Roy Lichtenstein - Navajo, Seated 1957 Crayon and tempra on The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
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Childe Hassam - Nude Seated 1912 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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Alberto Giacometti - Annette Seated 1958 oil and pencil on ca The Detroit Institute of Art Swiss
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Mark Rothko - Seated Woman 1933 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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Mark Rothko - Seated Nude c. 1934 oil on hardboard National Gallery of Art American
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Chaim Soutine - Seated Woman c. 1923-24 oil on canvas Cleveland Museum of Art Lithuanian
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Wilhelm Lehmbruck, German, 1881-1919 Seated Figure 1912 Brush and brown ink on buff paper. Sight:
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Wifredo Lam - Seated Woman 1955 oil and charcoal on Hirshhorn Museum Cuban
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Charles Émile Jacque, French, 1813-1894 Landscape, with hut and seated figure late 19th century Graphite
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Throne back for seated Buddha (MFA 1970.3) Figure of Buddha Indian Southern India, Tamilnadu, Tanjore
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Seated Buddha, Tang dynasty (618–907), ca. 650 ChinaDry lacquer with traces of gilt and polychrome
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Thomas Wilmer Dewing - Woman Seated at Table late 1800's-ear oil on mahogany pane Cleveland Museum of Art American
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Varney Masalay Seated dog ceramic and paint 300
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Henry Moore - Seated Mother with Twins 1981 watercolor, gouache, Tufts University Art Gallery English
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Thomas R.A. Gainsborough - Man with Book Seated in a Landscape c. 1753 oil on canvas Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester British
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Henri Matisse - Large Seated Nude c. 1923-25 bronze Minneapolis Institute of Arts French
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Edouard Jean Vuillard - Woman Seated on a Sofa c. 1906 oil and tempera on c The Art Institute of Chicago French
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Johannes van der Aack - An Old Woman seated sewing 1655 oil on canvas The National Gallery, London Flemish
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Henry Moore - Two Seated Figures Against a Wall 1960 bronze Arkansas Arts Center British
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Willem de Kooning - Seated Woman On A Bench 1972-1976 bronze Hirshhorn Museum American
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James McNeill Whistler - Study: Maud Seated 1878 lithotint The Art Institute of Chicago American
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Study of a Seated Man
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Seated Guanyin (Bodhisattva Avalokitesvara) Figure Chinese Ming dynasty, Ming dynasty, early 17th century China Dehua
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Mark Rothko - Untitled (two seated women) c. 1934 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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Henri Regnault - Seated African Woman 1860's oil on fabric Cleveland Museum of Art French

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (30)
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Dayton Art Institute: Go Figure: Exploring The Human Body In Art
The Art Institute's new Experiencenter exhibition, Go Figure: Exploring the Human Body in Art, will invite all ages to explore how the human figure is depicted in western and non-western cultures. The Mead Corporation Foundation is pleased to spon...
Armory Art Center: Reinventing Tradition–The Figure in Florida
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Art Gallery of Hamilton: Humanity Refigured: Henry Moore and Postwar British Sculpture
Dubbed Britain's New Iron Age, the group - which included Kenneth Armitage, Lynn Chadwick, Reg Butler, Bernard Meadows and Eduardo Paolozzi - created expressions of anxiety and disquietude that stood in stark ...
Baltimore Museum of Art: Picasso: Portrait and Figure
Picassos knowledge of the classical figure is evident in a number of finely rendered pen drawings from 1904-1905, drawn in contour without modeling. Gradually, through his study of Iberian sculpture and the influence of Cezanne, Picasso began ...
Farrell Fischoff Gallery: Form + Figure - Paintings and Sculptures: Julie Schumer and Mike Evans
This is the first exhibition in New Mexico for Mike Evans. Originally from Oklahoma, Evans has been living and working in Santa Fe since 2003. Evans draws his inspiration primarily from the human figure, in a traditional style similar to Glenna...
Columbia Museum of Art: A Body of Work: The Human Figure from Degas to Diebenkorn
“The human figure has been a significant genre throughout the history of art. To examine the human figure and the techniques and styles in its depiction throughout the 20th century is the motivation behind organizing A Body of Work: The Human Figu...
Gallery Enormous: Two for One: Jeff Whipple Rediscovers Toys - Joanna Coke, The Human figure
Originally from Chicago, naturalized-Floridian Jeff Whipple has won numerous awards for both playwriting and visual art,  and his paintings and sculpture have been featured in more than 60 solo exhibitions in galleries, universities and museums th...
Diane Farris Gallery: John Dennison and Justin Ogilvie: Drawing The Fine Line
Justin Ogilvie's works on paper and panel explore the metaphysics of self, namely, how the self is constituted through the presence of the other. In using the figure, he explores this conflict within themes of intimacy between bodies, between love...
ShanghArt: Orchid Figure: Tang Maohong
Tang Maohong describes his work “Orchid Figure” as follows: “I hope that within my video pieces there are countless segments, like dust scattering into a frame of time, calculated by seconds, having the same pettiness as ourselves. They and...
I. Wolk Gallery: Mitchell Johnson: New Paintings
This show will feature more than 25 new pieces ranging from painterly figure compositions reminiscent of David Park and the Bay Area Figurative Tradition to bucolic scenes of Italy and California. Johnson’s particular use of color and gesture sho...
Philadelphia Museum of Art: The Faceless Figure: Photographs from the Collection
In some images, the anonymity of the figure is used to suggest Everyman, while others teach us that it is not just the face that identifies individuality. Techniques used by the photographers include back views, silhouetting, and cropping. Oth...
Museum of Contemporary Art, LA and the Geffen Contemporary: Willem de Kooning: Tracing the Future
Together, more than 70 assembled works on paper show the artist's struggle to eliminate traditional barriers between drawing and painting. The exhibition highlights key pastels from 1952-1953 that were the centerpiece of de Kooning’s 1953 exhi...
Harrison's Gallery: New Figurative Works by Bryce Brown
‘I feel compelled to make figurative paintings, to capture subtle movement and gestures and to evoke positive emotion through certain poise. I am always looking for images and movement to find strong line, usually working the image to a point ...
Sprengel Museum: Cloudcatcher: Horst Antes and the Shift in Painting during the 1960s
Antes developed his figure in the post-war years, a period in which abstraction had been largely accepted as the international art idiom. While the figurative was being vigorously purged from the picture, Antes worked obsessively...
Te Papa: Henry Moore: Journey Through Form
This exhibition is the first time that Henry Moore's large-scale works have been displayed in New Zealand. Also included in Henry Moore: journey through form will ...
Frye Art Museum: The Perception of Appearance: A Decade of Contemporary American Figure Drawing
The scope of subject matter extends from nudes to narrative, while styles range from spontaneous to painstaking renderings. The wide range of movements, linear rhythms, and points of view depicted with technical virtuosity and extraordinary draugh...
Santa Barbara Museum of Art: Focus on the Figure: Southern California Artists (1850-1950)
Almost all the figurative artists who gathered in the artistic communities of southern California during that time had studied in Eastern and European academies which stressed the primacy of the figure. Arriving in California, they faced two chal...
Georgia Museum of Art: From Heroes to Dudes: Studies of Male Figure
From Albrecht Dürer’s 17th-century studies of the male figure to Kenyon Cox’s late 19th-century drawings of male nude models, a wide array of images will allow viewers to discover the ways in which real and mythical male bodies were dr...
Des Moines Art Center: Chad McCail: Snake
Exhibited with selections from his earlier works, Snake continues McCail’s signature graphic style, which emphasizes clarity and detail. The use of the computer in the series, McCail’s first digital body of work, has allowed the artist to push thi...
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art: Bill Viola
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Centro Galego de Arte Contemporanea: Antony Gormley: First Exhibition in Spain
This show will be a survey of his work from 1978 to the present, charting his exploration of his own body as a starting point from whic...
St. Louis Community College at Florissant Valley: Instructor/Assistant Professor Needed
Successful candidates will have knowledge of learning theory, experience in collaborative and interdisciplinary teaching techniques, a commitment to assessing and documenting student success and experience in using teaching to enhance learning...
Ohio Wesleyan, Ronald M. Ross Art Museum: Ron Anderson: Figuratively Speaking - The Human Figure in Art
Ron Anderson’s art commissions include an original painting commissioned for the Absolut Spirits 3rd annual art collection and two portraits housed in the George Washington Williams Memorial room at the Ohio Statehouse. He is currently co...
Courtyard Gallery: Qiu Zhijie: Social Portraits
A prominent figure in Chinese and international art circles, Qiu has created new work for this solo exhibition at CourtYard Gallery Beijing that chronicles seemingly random phenomena observed around China, that catch Qiu's eye while going unnotice...
Tate Modern: Katharina Fritsch
In 1987 a long queue of people could be seen waiting patiently to enter the Kaiser Wilhelm Museum in Germany. Rumours had spread of an unexpected presence in this museum of art - an elephant. It stood on a plinth as quietly monumental as any natur...
Courtyard Gallery: Li Jin: New Works
Li Jin was born in 1958 in Tianjin, P.R.China. His work has been included in exhibitions not only in China but also in the US, Japan and Europe....
Henry Moore Foundation at Perry Green: Henry Moore: Imaginary Landscapes
Moore combined two of his enduring fascinations, the human figure and the landscape perfectly illustrating his comments that ‘knees and breasts are mountains’. Woman 1957-58 and Reclining Figure: Hand 1979 relate the female form to undulating hill...
Henry Moore Foundation Studio: Robert Clark: Plans For The Real World, Parts 1–12
Plans For The Real World, Parts 1–12 takes its evocative base from the atmosphere of expectation and suspense of dawn and dusk. Prominent elements of painting, drawing and text are disorientated by combination with photography, sculpture,...
Palette Gallery: Bryce Brown; Urban Essence - Paintings of Life in the City
Brown has adapted his colour palette for this show to reflect upon the natural elements of our cities and abundance of parks and reserves that we have within them - noticing that, “New Zealanders love to be a part of the ‘great oudoors’ as much ...
J. Paul Getty Center: German and Swiss Drawings from the Permanent Collection
The exhibition will explore the range of German and Swiss draftsmanship of the 16th and 17th centuries through figure and compositional studies, designs for prints and decorative objects, and port...

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