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Lino Brocka. Bona. 1980. Philippines. 35mm print, color, sound, 83 min. Acquired from Pierre Rissient Publication excerpt In Still Moving: The Film and Media Collections of the Museum of Modern Art by Steven Higgins, New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2006, p. 279 Lino Brocka made more than fifty films in a career that lasted barely twenty years. Starting as a script supervisor, he made his directorial debut in 1970 with Wanted: Perfect Mother. After a short series of commercial studio releases, Brocka withdrew from filmmaking...
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Herbert Brenon. (1880-1958). A Kiss for Cinderella. 1925. USA. 35mm print, black and white, silent, approx. 105 min. Acquired from the Harvard University Film Foundation On the heels of director Herbert Brenon’s successful 1924 adaptation of James M. Barrie’s stage hit Peter Pan, Paramount Pictures quickly put into production another Barrie property, A Kiss for Cinderella, again with Brenon at the helm. In this fantasy, Betty Bronson (who portrayed Peter in the earlier film) plays Cinderella, a servant girl in wartime London who...
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TitlePortrait of the Artist DescriptionCassatt painted this self-portrait, one of only two known, a year after Edgar Degas invited her to exhibit with the Impressionists. His influence is reflected in the unusual sage-green background, the attention to contrasting complementary colors, and the figure’s daring asymmetrical pose and indifference to the viewer. Louisine Elder (later Mrs. H. O. Havemeyer), a young American Cassatt had met in Paris in 1874, acquired this self-portrait from the artist by 1879 and lent it to the thirteenth...
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Theodore Robinson American, 1852-1896 The Valley of Arconville, c. 1887 Oil on canvas 45.8 x 55.7 cm (18 x 21 7/8 in.) Signed, lower right: “TH. ROBINSON” Friends of American Art Collection, 1941.11 American Art Gallery 176 http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/artwork/111442 Website: Art Institute of...
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Fragonard, Jean-Honoré A Young Scholar 1775-78 Oil on canvas, 45 x 38 cm Wallace Collection, London
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da Modena, Tomasso Cardinal Nicholas of Rouen 1351-1352 Treviso, San Niccolт, Chapter...
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Masaccio Saint Peter Healing with His Shadow 1425-26 Fresco 91 3/8 x 63 3/4 in. (232 x 162 cm) Brancacci Chapel, Santa Maria del Carmine, Florence
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C. Dawn Davis The Conjurer 30 x 24, oil on canvas www.galeriedalray.com/davis.html New...
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