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March 2009


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		Daily Artwork Archive

Every day, a different object from the Met's collection is featured on the splash page of this website, together with an outtake from our curatorial files about that object's history, creator, iconography, materials, or other interesting attributes.

Fascinating facts about featured artworks are gathered in this archive, by date of appearance on the site. For more in-depth information about these and thousands of other objects in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, visit the online Collection Database.




	Dorothea Lange (American, 1895–1965) Printer: Library of Congress Pea Pickers Line Up on Edge of Field at Weigh Scale, near Calipatria, Imperial Valley, California, February 1939, printed ca. 1972 Gelatin silver print The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gift of Phyllis D. Massar, 1972 (1972.737.12)

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		John Singer Sargent (American, 1856–1925)

		Stephen Shore (American, b. 1947)

		Memorial Head (Mma), 17th century

		Plaques: winged creatures approaching stylized trees, Neo-Assyrian; 8th–7th century B.C.

		Mark Rothko (American, b. Russia, 1903–1970)

		Charles James (American, b. Great Britain, 1906–1978)

		Paul Cézanne (French, 1839–1906)

		Paul Henry (French, 1848–1905)

		Doll, 19th century

		Tombak, late 19th century

		Bartolomeo degli Erri (Italian, Modenese, active 1460–79)

		Yousuf Karsh (Canadian, b. Armenia, 1908–2002)

		Rowel Spur, ca. 1400

		Workshop of Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish, 1577–1640)

		Camille Corot (French, 1796–1875)

		Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881–1973); Printed by Arnéra; Published by Louise Leiris

		Mosque lamp, 13th century (before 1285); Mamluk period (1250–1517)

		Hans Memling (Netherlandish, active by 1465, died 1494)

		Frederic Edwin Church (American, 1826–1900)

		Artemisia Gentileschi (Italian, Roman, 1593–1651/53)

		Walker Evans (American, 1903–1975)

		Marble portrait of the emperor Augustus

		Claude Monet (French, 1840–1926)

		Alexander Phimister Proctor (American, 1860–1950)

		Panel, A.H. 905/ 1499–1500; Indian Sultanate period

		Standing warrior, Early Bronze Age; 3rd millennium B.C., middle Levant or Syria

		Winslow Homer (American, 1836–1910)

		Camel Fresco, 12th century

		Dorothea Lange (American, 1895–1965)

		Bronze hydria (water jar)

		Fragment of the Face of a Queen, Queen Tiye (?), ca. 1353–1336 B.C.; New Kingdom, Amarna Period

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