#American University Museum

[lionofchaeronea]

At the Window, Winslow Homer, 1872

[basicallyanotherwitchesthing]

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

[diemelusine]

Young woman in a black and green bonnet, looking down (c. 1890). By Mary Cassatt. Princeton University Art Museum.

[life-imitates-art-far-more]

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.’"

[uwmspeccoll]

A Crow-Attack Winter’s Feathursday

On this last #Feathursday of 2022 we present a scene of winter conflict with American Crows (Corvus brachyrhynchos) mobbing a predator Great Horned Owl (Bubo virginianus) from the 1963 book Birds of Wisconsin by the Wisconsin nature artist Owen J. Gromme (1896-1991), published for the Milwaukee Public Museum, where Gromme was curator of birds and mammals, by the University of Wisconsin Press. The original painting is oil on canvas from 1956 and measures 24″ by 30″. Gromme writes:

The familiar feud between owls and crows is portrayed in this study of a Great Horned Owl and it assailants. Powerful and well armed though it may be, many a battered and befuddled owl has been temporarily bested by these persistent tormentors, until nightfall reverses the advantage.

He goes on to state that hunters often take advantage of this natural enmity and use owl decoys to lure crows to their death. Gromme states: “Sometimes hundreds of crows are shot in a few hours by the use of such a decoy.”

Why anyone would want to slaughter hundreds of these majestic animals is beyond our comprehension. Appalling!!

Read more about Gromme and his book.

View more posts from Gromme’s Birds of Wisconsin.

View more Feathursday posts.

[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.”

[totallyhussein-blog]

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.

[petsincollections]

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

[postcardaday]

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.

[archivyrep]

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!

🏝️🦍

[lionofchaeronea]

Sunrise, Northport Harbor, Arthur Dove, 1929

[archivist-dragonfly]

Book 385

Joseph Cornell: Navigating the Imagination

Lynda Roscoe Hartigan

Peabody Essex Museum / Smithsonian American Art Museum / Yale University Press 2007

Published to accompany a traveling retrospective of Joseph Cornell’s (1903-1972) work in 2007 and 2008, this book is a beautiful tribute to an artist whose work defies easy categorization. Of the two large-format books I own about Cornell, I would have to give the edge to this one in terms of which is the better book. First off, this one is beautifully bound in full red cloth. Secondly, it offers much more of Cornell’s illuminating source material, some rarer pieces that are not usually reproduced, and even includes some previously unpublished art.

[irreplaceable-spark]

Thomas Hart Benton Cave Spring, 1963 Tempera on Panel

Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University

[minilibrarian]

From this weekend~

My parents came to visit and we finished our tour of the National Museum of African American History and Culture!

My dad doesn’t share much about his childhood, but as we toured the museum, he shared anecdotes from his time living in Texarkana with his 7 siblings.

Touring the museum with the knowledge that my father grew up on sharecropping land, riding on the back of my Granny’s cotton bag added a layer of gravity to what I was seeing.

I’m so grateful for all the privilege I have grown up with thanks to my parents��, and their parents’, hard work and perseverance. It means so much to me that I now have the opportunity to take my parents to museums to learn more about their history while they visit.

[zeldahime]

hey if anyone has institutional access to the university of oregon's masters and doctoral thesis search could you help me out

i need a thesis for a paper i'm writing about native american archival repatriation.

citation: Younker, Jason. Revival of a Potlatch Tradition: Coquille Giveaway. Masters thesis, University of Oregon, Department of Anthropology, Eugene, 1997.

scholars bank only has theses written after 2006 so i'm in a bit of a pickle