MFA VTS: Scenes from around the world 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? Museum Epiphany III Warren Prosperi (American, born in 1949), By collaborator Lucia Prosperi (American, born in 1951) Dimensions Framed: 62 x 45 inches (157.5 x 114.3 cm) Canvas size: 52 x 35 inches (132.1 x 88.9 cm) Accession Number 2012.131 Medium or Technique Oil on canvas

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? Washington Square, New York 1910 Everett Shinn, American, 1876–1953 Dimensions Height x width: 22 x 30 in. (55.9 x 76.2 cm) Medium Pastel on paper board Classification Pastels Accession Number 2008.45

Lesson 2

What is going on in this image? What do you see that makes you say that? What more can we find? View of Country (Inekoki) 「稲こき」 「View of Country」 Japanese Late Meiji–Taishô era Artist Unknown, Japanese Place of Creation: Japan Dimensions Overall: 8.8 x 13.8 cm (3 7/16 x 5 7/16 in.) Accession Number 2002.7826

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, 1871–1951) Dimensions 66.36 x 81.28 cm (26 1/8 x 32 in.) Accession Number 35.52 Medium or Technique Oil on canvas

Todi 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

Lesson 3

What is going on in this image? What do you see that makes you say that? What more can we find? Enclosed Field with Ploughman October 1889 Vincent van Gogh (Dutch (worked in France), 1853–1890) Dimensions 54.0 x 65.4 cm (21 1/4 x 25 3/4 in.) Accession Number 1993.37 Medium or Technique Oil on canvas

What is going on in this image? What do you see that makes you say that? What more can we find? Scene in Cairo about 1864 Charles Théodore Frère, French, 1814–1888 Dimensions 38.4 x 61.9 cm (15 1/8 x 24 3/8 in.) Medium Oil on canvas Classification Paintings Accession Number RES.24.1

What is going on in this image? What do you see that makes you say that? What more can we find? At the Races in the Countryside 1869 Edgar Degas, French, 1834–1917 Dimensions 36.5 x 55.9 cm (14 3/8 x 22 in.) Medium Oil on canvas Classification Paintings Accession Number 26.790

Lesson 4

What is going on in this image? What do you see that makes you say that? What more can we find? Mountain Landscape from Clavadel 1925–26 Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (German, 1880–1938) Dimensions 135 x 200.3 cm (53 1/8 x 78 7/8 in.) Accession Number 56.13 Medium or Technique Oil on canvas

What is going on in this image? What do you see that makes you say that? What more can we find? Atlantic City, New Jersey 1971 Lee Friedlander (American, born in 1934) Dimensions Image: 19.0 x 28.4 cm (7 1/2 x 11 3/16 in.) Sheet: 28.1 x 35.4 cm (11 1/16 x 13 15/16 in.) Accession Number 1983.262 Medium or Technique Photograph, gelatin silver print

What is going on in this image? What do you see that makes you say that? What more can we find? Country Doctor (Night Call) 1935 Horace Pippin (American, 1888–1946) Dimensions 71.44 x 81.6 cm (28 1/8 x 32 1/8 in.) Accession Number 1970.47 Medium or Technique Oil on canvas

Lesson 5

What is going on in this image? What do you see that makes you say that? What more can we find? City Bedroom March 21, 1867 A. Mayor (American, active in 1850–1867) Catalogue Raisonné Karolik (1962) cat. 814 Dimensions Sheet: 14.5 x 16.9 cm (5 11/16 x 6 5/8 in.) Accession Number 57.265 Medium or Technique Watercolor over graphite on paper, laid down

What is going on in this image? What do you see that makes you say that? What more can we find? Outdoor shrine Burmese Dimensions Vertical: Overall: 14 x 8.9 cm (5 1/2 x 3 1/2 in.) Accession Number 2012.5997 Medium or Technique Real photograph on card stock

What is going on in this image? What do you see that makes you say that? What more can we find? Two-handled jar (amphora) Greek Late Archaic Period about 500–490 B.C. the Plousios Painter Place of Manufacture: Greece, Attica, Athens Catalogue Raisonné CVA Boston 1, pl. 37; 38, 3-4; Highlights: Classical Art (MFA), p. 115-116. Dimensions Height: 36.1 cm (14 3/16 in.); diameter: 25.9 cm ( 10 3/16 in.) Accession Number 01.8035 Medium or Technique Ceramic, Black Figure