The Collection at the BMA

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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)

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

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

Untitled (Styrofoam Cups)

Premonition (Part of the Lynch Fragment Series), Melvin Edwards, welded steel

Premonition (Part of the Lynch Fragment Series)

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

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

Pack Camel, from a Tomb Figure Procession

Winter Landscape, Jacob van Ruisdael, oil on canvas

Winter Landscape

Detached album leaf

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

Three For Five

Quirinus Stercke, Ferdinand Bol, oil on canvas

Quirinus Stercke

Reading Lamp (La Lectrice or L’Etude)

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