Collections: Items Tagged "decoration"

On View: Mrs. Alexander Cumming, née Elizabeth Goldthwaite, later Mrs. John Bacon

The natural half-light and careful detailing in this very direct portrait of a young minister's wife demonstrate the achievement of the youn...

Hiroshige's One Hundred Famous Views of Edo

Hiroshige's 118 woodblock landscape and genre scenes of mid-nineteenth-century Tokyo, is one of the greatest achievements of Japanese art.

On View: "Octopus" Coat Hanger

Today when we think of where inventive contemporary design is manufactured, we often think of Italy. This, however, was not always the c...