1. MFA VTS: Life then and now
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

2. Lesson 1

3. 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
Medium or Technique
Oil on panel

4. 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 cm (48 x 60 in.)
Accession Number
Medium or Technique
Photograph, chromogenic print (Ektacolor)

5. 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
Medium or Technique
Oil on canvas

6. Lesson 2

7. 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 cm) Canvas size: 52 x 35 inches (132.1 x 88.9 cm)
Accession Number
Medium or Technique
Oil on canvas

8. 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 cm (50 3/8 x 40 1/8 in.)
Accession Number
01.104
Medium or Technique
Oil on canvas

9. At the Vermont State Fair, Rutland
negative 1941, printed later
Jack Delano, American
9 x 13 in.
Photoraphy, dye transfer print
Accession number:

10. Lesson 3

11. 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
Medium or Technique
Photograph, gelatin silver print

12. 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
x cm (42 x 42 in.)
Accession Number
Medium or Technique
Oil on canvas

13. 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:

14. Lesson 4

15. 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
x cm (64 3/8 x 52 3/8 in.)
Accession Number
19.12
Medium or Technique
Oil on canvas

16. 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

17. A Street in Winter: Evening
about 1855
Unidentified artist, American
15 x 18 1/8 in.
Oil on canvas
Accession number:

18. Lesson 5

19. 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
Medium or Technique
Oil on canvas

20. 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
Medium or Technique
Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper

21. 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 cm (15 7/8 x 23 7/8 in.)
Accession Number
Medium or Technique
Tempera on board

22. Lesson 6

23. 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
Medium or Technique
Photograph, albumen print

24. 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: x 164.5cm (51 5/8 x 64 3/4in.) Framed: x cm (61 1/4 x 74 1/4 in.)
Accession Number
54.102
Medium or Technique
Oil on canvas

25. Stele of the Nubian soldier Nenu
Egyptian, First Intermediate Period
about BC, from Egypt
17 11/16 x 14 5/8 x 2 5/8 in., 31 lb.
Painted limestone
Accession number:

26. Lesson 7

27. 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

28. 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
Medium or Technique
Photograph, gelatin silver print

29. 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 cm)
Medium
Oil on canvas
Classification
Paintings
Accession Number