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Migrants

Migrants

Thomas Rowlandson  (British, London 1757–1827 London)

Date: late 18th–early 19th century
Medium: Watercolor
Dimensions: sheet: 5 11/16 x 9 3/8 in. (14.5 x 23.8 cm)
Classification: Drawings
Credit Line: Bequest of Walter Carlebach, 1969
Accession Number: 69.131.7

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The Sixteen Luohans

The Sixteen Luohans

Wu Bin (active ca. 1583–1626)

Date: dated 1591
Accession Number: 1986.266.4

Love

Love

Adam Fuss (British, born 1961)

Date: 1992
Accession Number: 1997.195

Heart of the Andes

Heart of the Andes

Frederic Edwin Church (American, Hartford, Connecticut 1826–1900 New York)

Date: 1859
Accession Number: 09.95

Ensemble

Ensemble

Louis Vuitton Co. (French, founded 1854)

Date: fall/winter 1998–99
Accession Number: 1999.58a–d

Criss-Crossed Conveyors, River Rouge Plant, Ford Motor Company

Criss-Crossed Conveyors, River Rouge Plant, Ford Motor Company

Charles Sheeler (American, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1883–1965 Dobbs Ferry, New York)

Date: 1927
Accession Number: 1987.1100.1

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