Recent Acquisitions: A Selection, 1987–1988
Title | Recent Acquisitions: A Selection, 1987–1988 PDF eBook |
Author | Joan Holt |
Publisher | Metropolitan Museum of Art |
Pages | 96 |
Release | 1988 |
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ISBN | 0008896585 |
Recent Acquisitions: A Selection, 2020–2022
Title | Recent Acquisitions: A Selection, 2020–2022 PDF eBook |
Author | The Metropolitan Museum of Art |
Publisher | Metropolitan Museum of Art |
Pages | 84 |
Release | 2022-11-11 |
Genre | Art |
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Every two years the fall issue of The Met's quarterly Bulletin celebrates notable recent acquisitions and gifts to the collection. Highlights of Recent Acquisitions 2020–2022 include the Mantuan Roundel by Gian Marco Cavalli, a recently rediscovered tour de force from the early Renaissance; the archive of photographer James Van Der Zee, one of the most celebrated chroniclers of Black life in New York City during the Harlem Renaissance; a pair of sculptures by the renowned contemporary American artist Robert Gober; Thomas Sully’s magisterial portrait of Queen Victoria; and Poussin’s Agony in the Garden, one of only two accepted works by the artist in oil on copper. This publication also honors the many generous contributions from donors that make possible the continued growth of The Met collection.
Recent Acquisitions A Selection 2014-2016
Title | Recent Acquisitions A Selection 2014-2016 PDF eBook |
Author | The Metropolitan Museum of Art |
Publisher | Metropolitan Museum of Art |
Pages | 99 |
Release | 2016-11-09 |
Genre | Art |
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Every two years the fall issue of the Met's quarterly Bulletin celebrates notable recent acquisitions and gifts to the collection. Highlights of Recent Acquisitions 2014–2016 include Charles Le Brun's Everhard Jabach (1618–1695) and His Family, a donation of nearly 1,300 works of art from East and South Asia, three hundred masterpieces of Japanese Art from the Mary and Jackson Burke Foundation, more than two hundred works by American photographer Irving Penn, and Untitled (Studio) by Kerry James Marshall among many others. This publication also honors the many generous contributions from donors that make possible the continued growth of the Met's collection. p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Verdana}
Recent Acquisitions, A Selection: 2012–2014
Title | Recent Acquisitions, A Selection: 2012–2014 PDF eBook |
Author | The Metropolitan Museum of Art |
Publisher | Metropolitan Museum of Art |
Pages | 97 |
Release | 2014-11-07 |
Genre | Art |
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Every two years the fall issue of the Met's quarterly Bulletin celebrates notable recent acquisitions and gifts to the collection. Highlights of Recent Acquisitions 2012–2014, which will be published in early November, include the promised gifts of the Leonard A. Lauder Cubist Collection; the lavishly illustrated manuscript known as the Mishneh Torah, by celebrated medieval philosopher Moses Maimonides; paintings by turn-of-the-century Symbolists Ferdinand Hodler and Vilhelm Hammershøi; a superb viola by Jacob Stainer, whose instruments were favored by the Bach and Mozart families; and a magnificent Roman porphyry vessel that is one of the finest to survive from Classical antiquity. This publication also honors the many generous contributions from donors that make possible the continued growth of the Met's collection.
Recent Acquisitions: A Selection, 2016–2018
Title | Recent Acquisitions: A Selection, 2016–2018 PDF eBook |
Author | The Metropolitan Museum of Art |
Publisher | Metropolitan Museum of Art |
Pages | 100 |
Release | 2018-11-15 |
Genre | Art |
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Every two years the fall issue of the Met's quarterly Bulletin celebrates notable recent acquisitions and gifts to the collection. Highlights of Recent Acquisitions 2016–2018 includes Battle of the Little Bighorn by a Lakota artist who fought in that famous conflict as a young man, an exceedingly rare Chinese landscape from the tenth century that is the capstone of a gift of twelve important works from the Oscar L. Tang family, Francesco Salviati’s recently rediscovered portrait of the Florentine doctor Carlo Rimbotti, and examples of a Qur’an and a Hebrew Bible from medieval Spain. This publication also honors the many generous contributions from donors that make possible the continued growth of the Met's collection. p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Verdana}
Recent Acquisitions: A Selection, 2018–2020: Part I: Antiquity to the Late Eighteenth Century
Title | Recent Acquisitions: A Selection, 2018–2020: Part I: Antiquity to the Late Eighteenth Century PDF eBook |
Author | The Metropolitan Museum of Art |
Publisher | Metropolitan Museum of Art |
Pages | 52 |
Release | 2021-02-15 |
Genre | Art |
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The first of a special two-part edition of Recent Acquisitions, this Bulletin celebrates works acquired by the Museum in 2019 and 2020, many of which were gifts bestowed in honor of the Museum’s 150th anniversary year. Highlights of Recent Acquisitions 2019–2020 include a sumptuous set of handscrolls depicting The Tale of Genji, a second-century Roman wellhead, a drawing of a landscape by French artist Claude Lorrain, and nearly one hundred Indian paintings. This publication also honors the many generous contributions from donors that make possible the continued growth of The Met's collection.
Recent Acquisitions: A Selection: 2018–20: Part II: Late Eighteenth Century to Contemporary
Title | Recent Acquisitions: A Selection: 2018–20: Part II: Late Eighteenth Century to Contemporary PDF eBook |
Author | Ian Alteveer |
Publisher | Metropolitan Museum of Art |
Pages | 52 |
Release | |
Genre | Art |
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The second volume in a special two-part edition of Recent Acquisitions, this Bulletin celebrates works acquired by the Museum in 2019 and 2020, many of which were gifts bestowed in honor of the Museum’s 150th anniversary year. Highlights of this volume include Jean-Baptise Carpeaux’s astonishing portrayal of an African woman in the marble sculpture Why Born Enslaved!, a monumental storage jar by African American potter and poet David Drake, an exquisite lacquer mirror case depicting an 1838 meeting between the crown prince of Iran and the tsar of Russia, and Carmen Herrera’s abstract work dating to 1949, Iberic. This publication also honors the many generous contributions from donors that make possible the continued growth of The Met's collection.