#American University Museum

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At the Window, Winslow Homer, 1872

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C.C. Lamberg-Karlovsky - Excavations at Tepe Yahya, Iran, 1967-1969 - ASPR/AIPU - 1970

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Thomas Eakins (1844-1916) "Maud Cook" (1895) Oil on canvas Realism Located in the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut, United States Cook would describe the portrait to the artist's biographer in later years: "As I was just a young girl my hair is done low in the neck and tied with a ribbon. Mr. Eakins never gave the painting a name but said to himself it was like ‘a big rosebud.’"

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Dawn Meets Dusk. 2005. Gloria Jean Begay.

Kennedy Museum of Art, Ohio University.

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“Lilies of the Field #1, Bethlehem, Christmas Day”, 2019–2020 (and detail)

“Lilies of the field #1, Jerusalem, Mosque El-Aksa”, 2019–2020 (and detail)

“Lilies of the Field #1, Jerusalem, Mount Olives”, 2019–2020

“Lilies of the field #1, Jerusalem, Jews’ Wailing place”, 2019–2020

The images above are from Jerusalem-born artist Dor Guez’s Lillies of the Field series, part of his 2023 exhibition Colony at Princeton Art Museum’s Art@Bainbridge gallery project.

From the museum about the exhibition and this series (by curator Mitra M. Abbaspour) –

Guez, whose family are Palestinians from Lydda on his mother’s side and Jewish immigrants from North Africa on his father’s, has developed a practice of engaging historical objects, especially photographs, to reveal unwritten and overlooked pasts. Colony / Dor Guez brings together works that resulted from the artist’s years of research in the archives of the American Colony, a charitable Christian community established in Jerusalem in 1881 by American expatriates. In the first decades of the twentieth century, the artists of the American Colony created hundreds of photographic views of the locations described in Jewish, Christian, and Muslim religious texts that collectively came to be known as the Holy Land. These photographic prints, albums, and picture postcards, which attracted an international audience, form a substantial visual record of the region from this era. In this exhibition, the contents of the American Colony archive and the vision of the Holy Land that they produced are, respectively, the source materials and subject matter for Guez’s artistic exploration…

Two of the arrangements pictured in Lilies of the Field are captioned “Mosque El-Aksa” and feature delicate pressed-flower arrangements as stand-ins for this site of spiritual significance. Built on an elevated point in the Old City of Jerusalem, the El-Aksa Mosque is adjacent to the Dome of the Rock and the Temple Mount, understood as the point of departure for the Prophet Muhammad’s night journey or the story of Abraham’s near-sacrifice of Isaac, depending on one’s faith tradition. Captions for another pair of floral arrangements draw associations between the pictures and Bethlehem on Christmas Day and to the Grotto of the Nativity, the day and site of Jesus’s birth. Through their design and presentation, the botanical samples pressed into the album pages take on the qualities of a reliquary, carrying the trace of a holy site through space and across time.

Turn-of-the-century photography relied on devices such as albums and glass-plate negatives to create photographic objects that would transport their viewers—not just visually but experientially—to the significant sites pictured. It is notable, then, that in the creations of the American Colony, pictures of early twentieth-century Jerusalem are layered with symbolic weight, metaphoric meaning, and set into the viewer’s imagination. Guez’s artworks extend the metaphors to the present—reminding us that as the American Colony constructed an idea of the Holy Land and its inhabitants to meet the desires of international audiences, the idea of Jerusalem as a place continues to accrue meaning over time through the images we create and the stories we tell about it.

[arthistoryanimalia]

#TwoForTuesday on #TextileTuesday:

San Blas Islands (Guna Yala comarca), Guna, Panama - 20th century

Machine-woven plain-weave cotton cloth w/ appliqué & embroidery

On display at The George Washington University Textile Museum’s new animal-themed textiles exhibit.

“Guna women's blouse panels or mola often feature animals in their designs. The mola to the left shows a scene of a man on a boat surrounded by a range of different aquatic animals; a crab, two crocodiles (either spectacled caiman/Caiman crocodilus or the American crocodile/Crocodylus acutus), two fish, and an eel. This scene is reflective of the ocean-centric culture of these Indigenous communities on the Panamanian coast and the San Blas Islands.

Guna women also depict non-native species drawn from a diverse range of subject matter. The mola to the right was inspired by the cover of the September 1966 issue of the magazine The Western Horseman. The horse is a common symbol for foreign culture in Central and South American Indigenous cultures, as it was introduced into the region by various waves of European and American occupations.”

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Meet the Arab Americans, whose heritage is a roadmap to education

Have you ever visited the Arab American National Museum or checked out their book awards, film festivals and concerts? The museum “provides people with a more authentic and real representation of what it means to be Arab American.”

“We communicate the American narrative in the voices of Arab Americans. They express their experiences in their own words,” says Diana Abouali, director of the Arab American National Museum, located in Dearborn, Michigan.

Arab immigrant stories aren’t well-known among mainstream America. And what little Americans do know about Arabs is often informed by negative stereotypes.

Arab Americans are a diverse community that come from 22 Arab countries stretching from northern Africa to western Asia. But once they settle in the U.S., the museum director says, they become as American as they are Arab.

Ralph Nader is known for his lifetime of activism and fearless critique. Yet in this fresh and inspiring book The Seventeen Traditions: Lessons from an American Childhood, Nader takes a look backward - at a serene and enriching childhood spent in bucolic Winsted, Connecticut.

In his most personal writing to date, Nader fondly describes his father’s restaurant and how it taught him about work, community, how to share in the spirit of others, along with the value of his mother’s Lebanese cooking and how it defined his relationship with his heritage.

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Kutenai children with two nuns, a dog and a cat

Seven young women, 5 young men and 2 nuns share a joke in this photo. The dog sitting with the boys in front wears a hat and one of the girls is placing a cat on the shoulder of one of the boys.

American Indians of the Pacific Northwest Images

Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture

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Yvonne Jacquette (1934-2023) Motion Picture (Times Square), 1989-90 Color Lithograph on paper, 37/60, 48 1/2" x 36" image Purchase 1992.5 University of Kentucky Art Museum, Lexington, Kentucky Photography by M.S. Rezny Photography, Inc.

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Vitality of public record, demons, museums, fiction, and preservation

Two panels from the series finale In last year’s series finale of Mage & Demon Queen, a fantasy comedy yuri webtoon by Filipino artist Color-Les, set 25 years in the future (from when the original story takes place) the reporter Toby Verniloy, who works for The Gunhilde Daily, is impressed by a museum which traces history back to the first demon lord. It includes a statue of Malori “Mal” Crowett…

[nickysfacts]

All hail the King of Skull island!

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[lionofchaeronea]

Sunrise, Northport Harbor, Arthur Dove, 1929

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HISTORICAL TIME PERIODS

1700’s

✎ ; universe / timeline ── ❛ we are about to brave the storm in a skiff made of paper ❜ ── the second continental congress

✎ ; universe / timeline ── ❛ these are the times that try men’s souls ❜ ── the american revolution

1800’s

✎ ; universe / timeline ── ❛ a house divided against itself cannot stand ❜ ── the american civil war

✎ ; universe / timeline ── ❛ glittering on the surface but corrupt underneath ❜ ── the gilded age / the age of big business

1900’s

✎ ; universe / timeline ── ❛ blood and steel built belfast’s pride and joy ❜ ── before the voyage / titanic’s construction

✎ ; universe / timeline ── ❛ ever westward on the sea ❜ ── rms titanic’s maiden voyage

✎ ; universe / timeline ── ❛ turn the tragedy into spectacle ❜ ── titanic’s immediate aftermath / the inquiry

ALTERNATE UNIVERSES

FANDOM

✎ ; universe / timeline ── ❛ a visit for the season ❜ ── bridgerton

✎ ; universe / timeline ── ❛ history comes to life ❜ ── night at the museum

ALTERNATE TIMELINES

✎ ; universe / timeline ── ❛ the most undefinable yet paradoxical of things ❜ ── time travel

✎ ; universe / timeline ── ❛ this universe is only one of an infinite number ❜ ── multiuniverse travel

MUSE SPECIFIC

ROBERT TODD LINCOLN

✎ ; universe / timeline ── ❛ the prince of rails ❜ ── first son of the united states

ANASTASIA ANDREWS

✎ ; universe / timeline ── ❛ professor of magical history ❜ ── anastasia andrews in the wizarding world

CONSTANCE MORGAN

✎ ; universe / timeline ── ❛ now is the time to seize the day ❜ ── the 1899 newsboy strike

✎ ; universe / timeline ── ❛ fortune favors the bold ❜ ── the princess of wall street

✎ ; universe / timeline ── ❛ mother of the titanic ❜ ── mr. andrews’ apprentice

ABRAHAM LINCOLN

✎ ; universe / timeline ── ❛ with malice toward none ❜ ── sixteenth president of the united states

MORE TO BE ADDED

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Thomas Hart Benton Cave Spring, 1963 Tempera on Panel

Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University

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Storyteller and Forty Listeners. Not dated. Dorothy Trujillo, Cochiti Pueblo, New Mexico.

Kennedy Museum of Art. Ohio University.

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Wylie House (Indiana, United States)

Much like the university he was president of, Andrew Wylie's 1835 home started small.

Indiana University's first president resided here with his family as well as student boarders, sometimes housing up to twelve people at a time. Though it was originally on a twenty-acre plot of land used for farming, that number would dwindle significantly as the surrounding city grew along with the university. Today it is a museum and educational resource for the nearby university and the public.