Art objects
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Public Note: Here are entered works on decorative art objects. Works on decorative or utilitarian objects, generally more than one hundred years old, that have aesthetic or historic importance and financial value are entered under: Antiques. General works on any objects of interest to collectors, including mass produced items of little intrinsic value, are entered under: Collectibles.
Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:
Canvas, 2007
Item — Object B398.01.00026.00001: Series B398.01 [U186023282833]
Identifier: B398.01.00026.00001
Overview
Multi-piece artwork consisting of an encaustic painting on canvas, pair of shoes and wood shelf for shoes.
Canvas has black and white image of women sorting through a room strewn with papers; image is of Nuremberg files being organized. Next to the image are multiple lines of Hebrew script carved into the waxed surface. Canvas is surrounded by ash wood frame. Wax makes surface 3-dimensional.
Canvas has black and white image of women sorting through a room strewn with papers; image is of Nuremberg files being organized. Next to the image are multiple lines of Hebrew script carved into the waxed surface. Canvas is surrounded by ash wood frame. Wax makes surface 3-dimensional.
Dates:
2007
Casey Gardner Papers
Collection
Identifier: M361
Overview
Casey Gardner is a book artist currently residing in Berkeley, CA. Her works include "Why Go," "Entering Borderland," "Threshold, " and many others. This collection consists of process materials for three (3) of her works - "Threshold," "Body of Inquiry," and "Matter, Antimatter, and So Forth".
Dates:
2009 - 2013
Found in:
Special Collections and Archives
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Casey Gardner Papers
DU Art
Collection
Identifier: U205
Overview
Collection contains Picture of dragon stair railing Slotkin Collection of Bible Facsimiles Jerusalem in Ancient Prints, copy 125 ''The Trail Makers'' Piegon Indians, Montana, Copyright 1912 by Roland W. Reed Wooden Legs - Cheyenne Indian - Cheyenne Reservation, Montana The First Sail - Ojibway Indians, Red Lake Reservoir, MN, copyright 1907 Roland W. Reed Little Indian Kachina Paintaing - signed Awa Tsireh - San Idelfonso 25 of 50 Two views of stylized horses by Woody Crumbo ($1,000 for new...
Dates:
Other: Date Not Yet Determined
Found in:
Special Collections and Archives
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DU Art
Lowenstein Family Papers and Art
Collection
Identifier: B333
Overview
Ernst Heinrich Loewenstein [Henry Lowenstein] was born in Berlin, Germany in 1925 to a Jewish father and a non-Jewish mother. To escape Nazi brutality, he was sent on the Kindertransport to England in 1939. His parents, Dr. Max and Maria Loewenstein, and his half-sister, Karin Steinberg, remained in Berlin during World War II. Shortly after the war the family emigrated to the United States to avoid persecution. Materials in this collection include legal documents and correspondence,...
Dates:
1848-2014; Majority of material found within 1939-1948
"Nuremberg Palace of Justice", 2007
Item
Identifier: B398.01.00026
Overview
Multi-piece artwork consisting of an encaustic painting on canvas, pair of shoes and wood shelf for shoes. Canvas has black and white image of women sorting through a room strewn with papers; image is of Nuremberg files being organized. Next to the image are multiple lines of Hebrew script carved into the waxed surface. Canvas is surrounded by ash wood frame. Wax makes surface 3-dimensional. Shoes are greenish, brown snake print, peep toe and ankle straps with 3.5-inch heel; they date to circa...
Dates:
2007
Shoes, 1949
Item
Identifier: B398.01.00030.00001
Overview
Multi-piece artwork consisting of an encaustic painting on canvas, pair of shoes and wood shelf for shoes.
Shoes are greenish, brown snake print, peep toe and ankle straps with 3.5-inch heel; they date to circa 1949. Shoes belonged to the mother of one of Deborah Howard’s portrait subjects, Harry Lopas, and was also Deborah’s aunt. Label on shoe says “Joseph Salon Shoes.” Wood shelf for shoe display is a simple box of light wood. Shoes and box stored separately from painting.
Shoes are greenish, brown snake print, peep toe and ankle straps with 3.5-inch heel; they date to circa 1949. Shoes belonged to the mother of one of Deborah Howard’s portrait subjects, Harry Lopas, and was also Deborah’s aunt. Label on shoe says “Joseph Salon Shoes.” Wood shelf for shoe display is a simple box of light wood. Shoes and box stored separately from painting.
Dates:
1949
University of Denver Student Artists' Books Collection
Collection
Identifier: U335
Overview
Collection contains student artists' books created during their tenure at the University of Denver.
Dates:
2015