Lesson Plan
My Life Is My Art
Collection Item
Sybil Bonbright, Green Apples, c. 1944
Oil on canvas 16 x 20 in.; 40.64 x 50.8 cm. Acquired 1944
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A concise history of English painting.
Author: Gaunt, William, 1900-1980. Publication: New York, Praeger [1967] Description: 288 p. illus. (part col.) ports. (part col.) 22 cm. Notes: Subjects: Painting, English History. Associated Names:
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Bienal do Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo.
Author: Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo. Publication: São Paulo, Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo. Description: 5 v. ill. 18 cm. Notes: Catalogue of an exhibition held October-December, 1951.
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Maurice Utrillo. Text by Alfred Werner.
Author: Werner, Alfred, 1911-1979. Publication: New York, H. N. Abrams [1970] Description: 24 p. illus., col. plates. 33 cm. Notes: Subjects: Utrillo, Maurice, 1883-1955. Associated Names: Call Number
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Louis Michel Eilshemius, Surf and Boat, not dated
Oil on cardboard 9 1/4 x 17 1/4 in.; 23.495 x 43.815 cm Gift of James N. Rosenberg, 1946
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Louis Michel Eilshemius, Yuma, Arizona, 1890
Oil on canvas 12 1/8 x 16 1/8 in.; 30.7975 x 40.9575 cm Acquired 1945
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Henri Matisse, Head of a Girl, 1946
Ink on paper 17 1/4 x 11 in.; 43.815 x 27.94 cm Acquired 1957; © 2022 Succession H. Matisse/ Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
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Georges Braque, Abstraction, 1920
Transparent and opaque watercolor and graphite pencil on paper 10 7/8 x 13 3/4 in.; 27.6225 x 34.925 cm. Acquired 1930; © 2022 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris
Event
What a Relief
January 24-March 18, 2022
What a Relief: small relief sculptures is a juried exhibition of relief sculptures organized by The Phillips Collection and Washington Sculptors Group (WSG), and presented at Phillips@THEARC. The artists-members of WSG were invited to submit works that engage and expand upon the tradition of relief sculpture in contemporary terms. The word relief comes from the Latin verb relivare, to raise, implying that the sculpted material has been raised above its supporting background. From ancient Egyptian tombs to Greek and Roman temples to modern sculptural expressions, reliefs have been used around
