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Every day, a different object from the Met's collection is featured on the splash page of this website, together with an outtake from our curatorial files about that object's history, creator, iconography, materials, or other interesting attributes.

Fascinating facts about featured artworks are gathered in this archive, by date of appearance on the site. For more in-depth information about these and thousands of other objects in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, visit the online Collection Database.



Thomas Hart Benton (American, 1889–1975)
July Hay, 1943
Egg tempera, methyl cellulose, and oil on Masonite; 38 x 26 3/4 in. (96.5 x 67.9 cm)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, George A. Hearn Fund, 1943 (43.159.1)


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Thomas Hart Benton (American, 1889–1975)

Milton Avery (American, 1885–1965)

Rudolph Eickemeyer (American, 1862-1932)

Attributed to Mirabello Cavalori (Italian, Florentine, 1535–1572)

Fernando Botero (Colombian, born 1932)

Edgar Degas (French, 1834–1917)

Elliott Daingerfield (American, 1859–1932)

Large Jar, Choson dynasty (1392–1910), 18th–19th century

Bryson Burroughs (American, 1869–1934)

Édouard Manet (French, 1832–1883)

Raphaelle Peale (American, 1774–1825)

Illustrated Legends of the Kitano Shrine (Kitano Tenjin Engi)


Asher Brown Durand (American, 1796–1886)

The Handmade Papers of Japan, 1952

Winslow Homer (American, 1836–1910)

François-Thomas Germain (French, 1726-1791, master 1748)

Francisco de Goya y Lucientes (Spanish, Fuendetodos 1746-1828 Bordeaux)

Henri Cartier-Bresson (French, 1908–2004)

Agate Lentoid

John Singer Sargent (American, 1856–1925)

Vivienne Westwood (British, b. 1941)

Sword with Three Mounts, mid-1st century B.C.; Late Iron Age (La Tène)

Walker Evans (American, 1903–1975)

Possibly by William Notman (Canadian, born Scotland, 1826-1891)


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