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The Collection at the BMA

Featured Works

A large vertical painting on canvas, primarily black, with irregular lines of various colors (violet, crimson, gray) that run horizontally across its surface. A band of approximately 1-½ inches runs top-to-bottom along the left vertical edge of the canvas, revealing a gray painted ground beneath the aforementioned surface. The painting is unframed.

Black Table Setting (Homage to Duke Ellington)

  • Jack Whitten
  • acrylic on canvas
Punch service consisting of a punch bowl, ladle, twenty four cups, and a painted wood and plaster base. Punch bowl is decorated with eagle handles at each side; elaborate inscription around top rim; engraved picture of ship on one side around rim and other side has Birmingham Fairfield Steel and Iron Works

USS “Birmingham” Punch Service

  • Gorham Manufacturing Company
  • silver; painted wood and plaster base

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Untitled (Styrofoam Cups), Tara Donovan, 6 oz. and 8 oz. Styrofoam cups, string, hot glue

Untitled (Styrofoam Cups)

  • Tara Donovan
  • 6 oz. and 8 oz. Styrofoam cups, string, hot glue
Premonition (Part of the Lynch Fragment Series), Melvin Edwards, welded steel

Premonition (Part of the Lynch Fragment Series)

  • Melvin Edwards
  • welded steel
The painting's foreground is reddish pink. A red "horizon" line delineates this section and a pale pink background. A linear arrangement of Images/objects stand at the horizon. Most are recognizable and recurrent Guston objects: a pair of skinny, upturned legs in hobnail shoes, a knife blade, portion of a brick chimney or wall, a tool handle, the back of a stretched, oval canvas. Other areas are simply shapes or areas of paint. A red-outlined rectangle hovers at the painting's top left. Rendered in a palate of queasy rose and gray with punches of green, orange, and ochre, this cryptic configuration is compositionally direct, like a comic panel.

Late Afternoon

  • Philip Guston
  • oil on canvas
Highly detailed, carefully delineated panoramic view of Mount Etna viewed from the ruins of the ancient Greek theatre of Taormina, with the crumbling walls of the theatre visible on the far right.

View of Mount Aetna

  • Thomas Cole
  • graphite, wash, black ink, and possibly blue watercolor on laid paper

Pack Camel, from a Tomb Figure Procession

  • Shaanxi Province
  • earthenware with pigment and gilding
Winter Landscape, Jacob van Ruisdael, oil on canvas

Winter Landscape

  • Jacob van Ruisdael
  • oil on canvas
Detached album leaf

Agemachi (Trefoil Knots), Tale of Genji: Chapter 47

  • Japan
  • ink, color and gold on paper

Three For Five

  • John George Brown
  • oil on canvas
Quirinus Stercke, Ferdinand Bol, oil on canvas

Quirinus Stercke

  • Ferdinand Bol
  • oil on canvas

Reading Lamp (La Lectrice or L’Etude)

  • Royal Porcelain Manufactory Sèvres, Modelled by Simon-Louis Boizot, Gilt by André-Joseph Foinet
  • Hard-paste porcelain
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