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The Artist Project: Mary Weatherford

June 6, 2016

Artist Mary Weatherford reflects on Goya's _Manuel Osorio Manrique de Zuñiga_ in this episode of The Artist Project.

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Mary Sully: A Reclamation

November 14, 2024

For decades, the work of Native American artist Mary Sully remained largely unseen. A discovery in a basement brought this great artist’s work to light.

Past Exhibition

Mary Sully—born Susan Mabel Deloria on the Standing Rock Reservation in South Dakota—was a little-known, reclusive Yankton Dakota artist who, between the 1920s and 1940s, created highly distinctive work informed by her Native American and settler a…

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Celebrating the Legacy of Japanese Art Collector Mary Griggs Burke

May 27, 2016

By Angela Salisbury

Angela Salisbury, senior associate for Archival Processing, details what she has learned about Mary Griggs Burke as a collector and philanthropist from a trove of Mrs. Burke's personal correspondence, scrapbooks, and documents.

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Missionaries Making Music: Building Mary Elizabeth Adams Brown's Collection

July 28, 2014

By Sally B. Brown

Guest author Sally Brown—the great-granddaughter of Mary Elizabeth Adams Brown—highlights the importance of her family's relationship with missionaries across the world in growing what was to become the Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments.

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Documenting a Legacy: Mary Griggs Burke

November 19, 2018

By Angela Salisbury

The Mary Griggs Burke papers arrived at the Museum in 2015 as a complement to Mrs. Burke's landmark bequest of Japanese and Korean art.

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Mary Elizabeth Adams Brown's Collection Celebrates 125 Years at the Met

February 18, 2014

By Sally B. Brown

Guest author Sally Brown—the great-granddaughter of Mary Elizabeth Adams Brown—accounts for her great-grandmother's passion for musical instruments, and the circumstances that led to her famous donation to the Metropolitan 125 years ago.

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American Furniture, 1620–1730: The Seventeenth-Century and William and Mary Styles

March 1, 2010

By Nicholas C. Vincent

Furniture in the early Baroque, or William and Mary, style broke away from the solid, horizontal massing and rectilinear outlines of the preceding era.

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Compassion, Mercy, and Love: Guanyin and the Virgin Mary

May 7, 2021

By Kevin D. Pham

How two independent cultures—feudal Europe and imperial China—depicted divine figures with incredible visual similarities.

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Decoding the Silver Caesars: A Conversation with Mary Beard and Julia Siemon, Part Two

February 20, 2018

By Sumi Hansen

Senior Editor Sumi Hansen interviews Cambridge classicist Mary Beard and Assistant Research Curator Julia Siemon about the stories behind the images on the famous Aldobrandini Tazze.