4th–6th century / Wool and linen / 12 13/16”x24 5/16” / The Met
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Wall Panel with a Charging Boar / Sasanian period, Ctesiphon, Mesopotamiac.6th century A.D. / Stucco / 11 5/8”x15” / The Met
The Jennings Dog / Roman copy of a Hellenistic bronze original2nd Century A.D. / Marble / 41” high / The British Museum, London
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Horse Head / Sassanid Era, Kermanshah Province, Iran4th century A.D. / Gold and silver / Dimensions? / Musée du Louvre, Paris
Around 850-900 B.C. / Bronze / 10”x6 1/4” / Freer Gallery of Art|Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian, D.C.
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1st or 2nd century A.D. / White marble / La Venaria Reale, Turin, Italy, on loan from Pius-Clementine Museum, Vatican Museums
Caves of Lascaux / Upper Paleolithic periodc.17,000-c.15,000 B.C. / Cave painting and rock engraving / Dordogne region of southwestern France
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c.3000-2800 B.C. / Magnesite or Crystalline Limestone / 3 1/4” high / Private collection
Self Portraitc.1759 / Oil on canvas / 30”x25”
National Portrait Gallery, London
c.1778 / Oil on canvas / 16 3/4”x12 3/4”
Redwood Library and Athenaeum, Newport, RI
Stela of Chief sculptor Bak1345 BC
/ Quartzite
/ 18th dynasty, Amarna period
/ Egyptian Museum, Berlin
1433
/ Oil on oak
/ 10 1/4”x7 1/2”
/ The National Gallery, London
In Flanders Field-Where Soldiers Sleep and Poppies Grow / Robert Vonnoh
1890 / Oil on canvas / 58”x104” / The Butler Institute of American Art
“ ‘In Flanders Field’ became popular almost immediately upon its publication. It was translated into other languages and used on billboards advertising Victory Loan Bonds in Canada. The poppy soon became known as the flower of remembrance for the men and women in Britain, France, the United States, and Canada who have died in service of their country.” ~poets.org
Biographies:
International Photography Hall of Fame and Museum~ http://www.iphf.org/hall-of-fame/dorothea-lange/
PBS~ http://www.pbs.org/video/2365971488/
Three months after Pearl Harbor, President Franklin Roosevelt ordered the relocation of Japanese-Americans into armed camps in the West. Soon after, the War Relocation Authority hired [Dorothea Lange (1895-1965)] to photograph Japanese neighborhoods, processing centers, and camp facilities.
To capture the spirit of the camps, Lange created images that frequently juxtapose signs of human courage and dignity with physical evidence of the indignities of incarceration. Not surprisingly, many of Lange’s photographs were censored by the federal government, itself conflicted by the existence of the camps.
The true impact of Lange’s work was not felt until 1972, when the Whitney Museum incorporated twenty-seven of her photographs into Executive
Order 9066, an exhibit about the Japanese internment. New York Times critic A.D. Coleman called Lange’s photographs “documents of such a high order that they convey the feelings of the victims as well as the facts of the crime.”
FROM http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/wcf/wcf0013.html
National Archives~ https://www.archives.gov/news/articles/japanese-internment-75th-anniversary
National Park Service~ https://www.nps.gov/manz/learn/photosmultimedia/dorothea-lange-gallery.htm
During World War I, Liberty Gardens (and later, Victory Gardens) grew out of the government’s efforts to encourage home gardening among Americans, both to express their patriotism and to aid the war effort by freeing up food production for soldiers. ~cbsnews.com
As part of the (World War II) effort, the government rationed foods like sugar, butter, milk, cheese, eggs, coffee, meat and canned goods. Labor and transportation
shortages made it hard to harvest and move fruits and vegetables to market. So, the government turned to its citizens and encouraged them to plant “Victory Gardens.” They wanted individuals to provide their own fruits and vegetables. ~livinghistoryfarm.org
Americans were encouraged to grow their own to ensure everyone at home had enough to eat…There were 20 million gardens everywhere from rooftops and empty lots to backyards and schoolyards. 40% of produce, which made over 1 million tons,
consumed in America was grown in victory gardens. People learned how to can and preserve so the harvests lasted all year. ~nww2m.com
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