MFA VTS: Life then and now Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Lesson 1
What is going on in this image? What do you see that makes you say that? What more can we find? Old Woman Cutting Bread about 1655 Gerrit Dou (Dutch, 1613–1675) Dimensions Overall: 28 x 22 cm (11 x 8 11/16 in.) Accession Number 2003.71 Medium or Technique Oil on panel
What is going on in this image? What do you see that makes you say that? What more can we find? The Boys 1990 Tina Barney (American, born in 1945) Dimensions 121.9 x 152.4 cm (48 x 60 in.) Accession Number 1993.186 Medium or Technique Photograph, chromogenic print (Ektacolor)
What is going on in this image? What do you see that makes you say that? What more can we find? Nobleman with Two Children in a Landscape Unidentified artist, Flemish, 16th–17th century (Flemish) Dimensions 93.4 x 84.5 cm (36 3/4 x 33 1/4 in.) Accession Number 65.1320 Medium or Technique Oil on canvas
Lesson 2
What is going on in this image? What do you see that makes you say that? What more can we find? Museum Epiphany III Warren Prosperi (American, born in 1949), By collaborator Lucia Prosperi (American, born in 1951) Dimensions Framed: 62 x 45 inches (157.5 x 114.3 cm) Canvas size: 52 x 35 inches (132.1 x 88.9 cm) Accession Number 2012.131 Medium or Technique Oil on canvas
What is going on in this image? What do you see that makes you say that? What more can we find? Don Baltasar Carlos with a Dwarf 1632 Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez (Spanish, 1599–1660) Dimensions 128.0 x 101.9 cm (50 3/8 x 40 1/8 in.) Accession Number 01.104 Medium or Technique Oil on canvas
At the Vermont State Fair, Rutland negative 1941, printed later Jack Delano, American 9 x 13 in. Photoraphy, dye transfer print Accession number: 2002.392
Lesson 3
What is going on in this image? What do you see that makes you say that? What more can we find? Untitled (Children playing with their father) 1959 Imogen Cunningham, American, 1883–1976 Dimensions Image/Sheet: 19.2 x 18.7 cm (7 9/16 x 7 3/8 in.) Mount: 36.8 x 29.2 cm (14 1/2 x 11 1/2 in.) Accession Number 1993.1012 Medium or Technique Photograph, gelatin silver print
What is going on in this image? What do you see that makes you say that? What more can we find? Three Children 1840 John F. Francis (American, 1808–1886) Dimensions 106.68 x 106.68 cm (42 x 42 in.) Accession Number 47.1142 Medium or Technique Oil on canvas
Girls Playing on a Wooden Board from the series Korean Culture, No. 101 Japanese, Taishô-early Shôwa era Artist Unknown, Japanese Publisher: Hinode shoko, Keijo Place of Creation: japan Color lithograph; inc on card stock 5 7/16 x 3 7/16 in. Accession number: 2202.8124
Lesson 4
What is going on in this image? What do you see that makes you say that? What more can we find? The Tea Party about 1824 Henry Sargent (American, 1770–1845) Dimensions 163.51 x 133.03 cm (64 3/8 x 52 3/8 in.) Accession Number 19.12 Medium or Technique Oil on canvas
What is going on in this image? What do you see that makes you say that? What more can we find? Home-Workers in N. Y. 1915 Lewis W. Hine, American, 1874–1940 Medium Photograph, gelatin silver print Classification Photographs Accession Number 1973.490
A Street in Winter: Evening about 1855 Unidentified artist, American 15 x 18 1/8 in. Oil on canvas Accession number: 47.1216
Lesson 5
What is going on in this image? What do you see that makes you say that? What more can we find? Children Feeding Geese 1881 Julien Dupré (French, 1851–1910) Dimensions 81.6 x 65.1 cm (32 1/8 x 25 5/8 in.) Accession Number 20.1865 Medium or Technique Oil on canvas
What is going on in this image? What do you see that makes you say that? What more can we find? Chinese Children Playing in Snow 唐子の雪遊び Japanese Edo period Artist Utagawa Kunitora (Japanese, active early 19th century), Publisher Yamamotoya Heikichi (Eikyûdô) (Japanese) Dimensions Horizontal ôban; 24.6 x 37.1 cm (9 11/16 x 14 5/8 in.) Accession Number 11.25856 Medium or Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
What is going on in this image? What do you see that makes you say that? What more can we find? Girl Skipping Rope 1943 Ben Shahn (American (born in Lithuania), 1898–1969) Dimensions 40.32 x 60.64 cm (15 7/8 x 23 7/8 in.) Accession Number 1971.702 Medium or Technique Tempera on board
Lesson 6
What is going on in this image? What do you see that makes you say that? What more can we find? Children on Fish Weir Provenance Stephen T. Rose, Boston; purchased May 1978. Credit Line Gift of Clifford S. Ackley Carlo Naya, Italian (Venice (?)), 1816–1882 Dimensions Image/Sheet: 23.9 x 18.4 cm (9 7/16 x 7 1/4 in.) Accession Number 1978.173 Medium or Technique Photograph, albumen print
What is going on in this image? What do you see that makes you say that? What more can we find? Twelfth-Night Feast 1662 Jan Havicksz. Steen (Dutch, 1626–1679) Dimensions Overall: 131.1 x 164.5cm (51 5/8 x 64 3/4in.) Framed: 155.6 x 188.6 cm (61 1/4 x 74 1/4 in.) Accession Number 54.102 Medium or Technique Oil on canvas
Stele of the Nubian soldier Nenu Egyptian, First Intermediate Period about 2100-2040 BC, from Egypt 17 11/16 x 14 5/8 x 2 5/8 in., 31 lb. Painted limestone Accession number: 03.1848
Lesson 7
What is going on in this image? What do you see that makes you say that? What more can we find? Tire Jumping in Front of My Window 1936–47 Allan Rohan Crite (American, 1910–2007) Dimensions Height x width: 23 1/2 x 17 1/2 in. (59.7 x 44.5 cm) Accession Number 2007.3 Medium or Technique Oil on canvasboard
What is going on in this image? What do you see that makes you say that? What more can we find? Migrant Family, Texas 1936 Dorothea Lange (American, 1895–1965) Dimensions Image: 21.8 x 30.6 cm (8 9/16 x 12 1/16 in.) Sheet: 26.3 x 31.9 cm (10 3/8 x 12 9/16 in.) Accession Number 1979.15 Medium or Technique Photograph, gelatin silver print
What is going on in this image? What do you see that makes you say that? What more can we find? Nanny and Rose 1983 Scott Prior, American, born in 1949 Dimensions Overall: 67 3/4 x 59 1/2 inches (172.1 x 151.1 cm) Medium Oil on canvas Classification Paintings Accession Number 1984.135