Museum of Fine Arts, Boston MFA VTS Year 1 Image Set Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Lesson 1

What is going on in this image? What do you see that makes you say that? What more can we find? Tire Jumping in Front of My Window 1936-47 Allan Rohan Crite, American Oil on canvasboard 23 1/2 x 17 1/2 in. Accession number: 2007.3

What is going on in this image? What do you see that makes you say that? What more can we find? Children Listening to Music 1977 James Weeks, American Acrylic on canvas 67 x94 in. Accesion number: 1978.80

What is going on in this image? What do you see that makes you say that? What more can we find? Girls Playing on a Wooden Board from the series Korean Culture, No. 101 Japanese, Taishô-early Shôwa era Artist Unknown, Japanese Publisher: Hinode shoko, Keijo Place of Creation: japan Color lithograph; inc on card stock 5 7/16 x 3 7/16 in. Accession number: 2202.8124

Lesson 2

What is going on in this image? What do you see that makes you say that? What more can we find? Calm Morning 1904 Frank Weston Benson, American Oil on Canvas 44 3/8 x 36 1/8 in. Accession number: 1985.925

What is going on in this image? What do you see that makes you say that? What more can we find? Returning from a Festival Edo Period, about 1800-1810 Katsushika Hokusai, Japanese Woodblock print (surimono) ink and color on paper 19.2 x 52.3 cm Accession number: 11.19636

What is going on in this image? What do you see that makes you say that? What more can we find? Enfants dans la Première Neige - Children in the First Snow 1955, printed 1981 Édouard Boubat, French Photograph, gelatin silver print 9 3.8 x 14 1/8 in. Accession number: 1982.687

Lesson 3

What is going on in this image? What do you see that makes you say that? What more can we find? The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit 1882 John Singer Sargent, American 87 3/8 x 87 5/8 in. Oil on canvas Accession number: 19.124

What is going on in this image? What do you see that makes you say that? What more can we find? At the Vermont State Fair, Rutland negative 1941, printed later Jack Delano, American 9 x 13 in. Photoraphy, dye transfer print Accession number: 2002.392

What is going on in this image? What do you see that makes you say that? What more can we find? The Boy's Festival, from the series Precious Children's Games of the Five Festivals Japanese, Edo period, 1801 Torii Kiyonaga, Japanese Woodblock print; ink and color on paper, 15 3/8 x 10 3/16 in. Accession number: 11.13932

Lesson 4

What is going on in this image? What do you see that makes you say that? What more can we find? Pigeons 1910 John Sloan, American 26 1/8 x 32 in. Oil on Canvas Accession number: 35.52

TWhat is going on in this image? What do you see that makes you say that? What more can we find? odi Ragini Indian, Rajasthani, About 1760 Budi or Kota, Rakasthan, India 13 3/8 x 9 3/8 in. Opaque watercolor, cold and silver on paper Page from an illustrated Ragamana manuscript Accession number: 67.797

What is going on in this image? What do you see that makes you say that? What more can we find? Two-handled jar (pelike) depicting the escape of Odysseus from the cave of Polyphemos, Greek, Late Archaic Period about 490-480 BC Near: The Goettingen Painter Manufactured in Athens, Attica, Greece Height: 11 13/16 in. Ceramic, Red Figure Accession Numer 61.384

Lesson 5

What is going on in this image? What do you see that makes you say that? What more can we find? Riding on Snow Japanese, Taishô-early Shôwa era Artist Unidentified, Japanese Place of Creation: Japan 5 7/16 in x 3 7/16 in. Color woodblock print; ink on paper Accession number: 2002.3202

What is going on in this image? What do you see that makes you say that? What more can we find? "A Spill Out" on the Snow 1870 Publisher: Currier and Ives, American Image: 16 1/4 x 24 11/16 in. Sheet: 22 3/16 x 29 7/16 in. Lithograph: hand-colored Accession number: 33.920

What is going on in this image? What do you see that makes you say that? What more can we find? Boulevard Saint-Denis, Argenteuil in Winter Claude Monet, French 24 x 31 1/8 in. Oil on canvas Accession number: 1978.633

Lesson 6

What is going on in this image? What do you see that makes you say that? What more can we find? Twelfth-Night Feast 1662 Jan Havicksz. Steen, Dutch 51 5/8 x 64 3/4 in. Oil on canvas Accession number 54.102

What is going on in this image? What do you see that makes you say that? What more can we find? Italian Peasants 19th century Unidentifid artist, Italian Image/sheet: 7 3/8 x 9 in. Photograph, albumen print Accession number 1977.638

What is going on in this image? What do you see that makes you say that? What more can we find? Stele of the Nubian soldier Nenu Egyptian, First Intermediate Period about 2100-2040 BC, from Egypt 17 11/16 x 14 5/8 x 2 5/8 in., 31 lb. Painted limestone Accession number: 03.1848

Lesson 7

What is going on in this image? What do you see that makes you say that? What more can we find? Running Before the Storm about 1870 Unidentified artist, American 24 x 36 1/4 in. Oil on canvas Accession number: 46.851

What is going on in this image? What do you see that makes you say that? What more can we find? Hamza Nama (Qissah-i-Amir Hamza): Iskander Finds the Infand Darab in the Water Indian, Mughal, Mughal period, about 1562 68.5 x 52.0 cm Opaque watercolor on cotton mounted on paper Accession number: 24.129

What is going on in this image? What do you see that makes you say that? What more can we find? Watson and the Shark 1778 John Singleton Copley 182.9 x 229.2 cm. Oil on canvas Accession number: 89.481

Lesson 8

What is going on in this image? What do you see that makes you say that? What more can we find? Migrant Family, Texas 1936 Dorothea Lange, American 25.4 x 31.8 cm Silver print photograph Accession number: 1979.15

What is going on in this image? What do you see that makes you say that? What more can we find? Boston Common at Twilight 1885-86 Childe Hassam, American 42 x 60 in. Oil on canvas Accession number: 31.952

What is going on in this image? What do you see that makes you say that? What more can we find? Kanamono in the form of a family goup with a child, mother, and grandmother, Japanese, Edo Period Meiji Era, mid to late 19th century Unno Moritoshi, Japanese gold; other metals: shakudô, shibuichi and copper Accession number: 11.5627

Lesson 9

What is going on in this image? What do you see that makes you say that? What more can we find? The Questioner of the Sphinx 1863 Elihu Vedder, American 92.1 x 107.3 cm. Oil on canvas Accession number: 06.2430

What is going on in this image? What do you see that makes you say that? What more can we find? Newsboy on Street Corner 1909 Lewis W. Hine, American Photograph, gelatin silver print Accesion number: 1973.301

What is going on in this image? What do you see that makes you say that? What more can we find? A Street in Winter: Evening about 1855 Unidentified artist, American 15 x 18 1/8 in. Oil on canvas Accession number: 47.1216