1. MFA VTS: Work and play around the world
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

2. Lesson 1

3. What is going on in this image?
What do you see that makes you say that?
What more can we find?
Marshintonio Family
1910s
Lewis W. Hine, American, 1874–1940
Dimensions
Sight: 7 x 10.2 cm (2 3/4 x 4 in.)
Medium
Photograph, vintage gelatin silver print
Classification
Photographs
Accession Number

4. What is going on in this image?
What do you see that makes you say that?
What more can we find?
Carnival, Franklin Park, Boston
1897 Maurice Brazil Prendergast (American (born in Canada), 1858–1924)
CATALOGUE RAISONNÉ
Clark, Matthews, Owens 0611
DIMENSIONS
Sheet: 34 x 37.5 cm (13 3/8 x 14 3/4 in.) Framed: 54 x 59.7 cm (21 1/4 x 23 1/2 in.)
ACCESSION NUMBER
MEDIUM OR TECHNIQUE
Watercolor over graphite pencil on paper

5. What is going on in this image?
What do you see that makes you say that?
What more can we find?
Untitled (Children playing with their father)
1959
Imogen Cunningham, American, 1883–1976
Dimensions
Image/Sheet: 19.2 x 18.7 cm (7 9/16 x 7 3/8 in.) Mount: 36.8 x 29.2 cm (14 1/2 x 11 1/2 in.)
Accession Number
Medium or Technique
Photograph, gelatin silver print

6. Lesson 2

7. What is going on in this image?
What do you see that makes you say that?
What more can we find?
The Book Bindery
1850s Unidentified artist, American, 19th century
CATALOGUE RAISONNÉ
Karolik cat. no 32, fig. 20
DIMENSIONS
Sheet: 15.2 x 22.5 cm (6 x 8 7/8 in.)
ACCESSION NUMBER
58.835
MEDIUM OR TECHNIQUE
Graphite and watercolor on paper
NOT ON VIEW
COLLECTIONS
Prints and Drawings

8. What is going on in this image?
What do you see that makes you say that?
What more can we find?
A Pic Nick in the Woods of New England
about 1855
Jerome B. Thompson, American, 1814–1886
Dimensions
x cm (40 7/8 x 62 in.)
Medium
Oil on canvas
Classification
Paintings
Accession Number
46.852

9. What is going on in this image?
What do you see that makes you say that?
What more can we find?
Dance at Bougival
1883
Pierre-Auguste Renoir, French, 1841–1919
Dimensions
181.9 x 98.1 cm (71 5/8 x 38 5/8 in.)
Medium
Oil on canvas
Classification
Paintings
Accession Number
37.375

10. Lesson 3

11. What is going on in this image?
What do you see that makes you say that?
What more can we find?
Women of Paris: The Circus Lover
1885 James Jacques Joseph Tissot (French, 1836–1902)
DIMENSIONS
147.3 x cm (58 x 40 in.)
ACCESSION NUMBER
58.45
MEDIUM OR TECHNIQUE
Oil on canvas

12. 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

13. 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
Medium or Technique
Real photograph on card stock

14. Lesson 4

15. 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:

16. What is going on in this image?
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What more can we find?
Children Feeding Geese
1881 Julien Dupré (French, 1851–1910)
Dimensions
81.6 x 65.1 cm (32 1/8 x 25 5/8 in.)
Accession Number
Medium or Technique
Oil on canvas

17. What is going on in this image?
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What more can we find?
Family Seated in Boat
Wada Sanzô, Japanese, 1883–1967
Dimensions
Overall: 8.8 x 13.8 cm (3 7/16 x 5 7/16 in.)
Medium
Color lithograph; ink on card stock
Classification
Postcards
Accession Number

18. Lesson 5

19. What is going on in this image?
What do you see that makes you say that?
What more can we find?
Title: Emily and un-identified woman Date: 1909–13
By: Amelia Maria Ely Howe
American, 1874–1932
Object Number: 
Status: Not On View
Dimensions: Sheet: 7.6 x 10.2 cm (3 x 4 in.) Other (Leather Album): 14.6 x 18.4 cm (5 3/4 x 7 1/4 in.) Medium: Photograph, silver prints Credit Line: Gift of Amelia Marks in memory of Emily Howe Marks and Frederick Ely Howe, and in honor of their other children: Anne Marks Morgan, Frederick Howe Marks, George Aaron Marks, Jr., and Marjorie Howe Beckler Descriptions:
Page 9, light-brown, leather album, with black pages on which silver prints are mounted (mostly one to a page)
Provenance: Amelia Maria Ely Howe; to her daughter Emily Howe Marks; to her daughter Amelia Marks; by whom given to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Accession Date: September 16, 2009)  

20. What is going on in this image?
What do you see that makes you say that?
What more can we find?
Children Working in the Field
Provenance
Acquired by Richard Morehouse Gallery from dealer, 2004; acquired by Dr. J. Patrick Kennedy, 2004 (San Leandro, CA); by whom given to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Accession Date: December 17, 2008)
Credit Line
Gift of Dr. and Mrs. J. Patrick Kennedy
1908–16
Lewis W. Hine, American, 1874–1940
Dimensions
Sheet: 12.7 x 17.8 cm (5 x 7 in.)
Accession Number
Medium or Technique
Photograph, vintage gelatin silver print

21. What is going on in this image?
What do you see that makes you say that?
What more can we find?
Baseball on the Beach; frontispiece illustration for Indoor and Outdoor Games (Naigai yûgi hô), vol. 30 of the series The Everyday Encyclopedia (Nichiyô hyakka zensho)
1898 (Meiji 31)
Tomioka Eisen, Japanese, 1864–1905
Medium
Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Classification
Prints
Accession Number

22. Lesson 6

23. What is going on in this image?
What do you see that makes you say that?
What more can we find?
Kindergarten Children at Play and Their Teachers from the series Japanese Women's Lives
Provenance
ex. Jaeger Collection Leonard A. Lauder Collection, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Fractional gift of Lauder (Accession date: March 20, 2002).
Credit Line
Leonard A. Lauder Collection of Japanese Postcards
Japanese, Late Meiji era - Taisho 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
Medium or Technique
Color lithograph; ink on card stock

24. 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:

25. What is going on in this image?
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What more can we find?
Tire Jumping in Front of My Window
1936–47 Allan Rohan Crite (American, 1910–2007)
Dimensions
Height x width: 23 1/2 x 17 1/2 in. (59.7 x 44.5 cm)
Accession Number
2007.3
Medium or Technique
Oil on canvasboard

26. Lesson 7

27. What is going on in this image?
What do you see that makes you say that?
What more can we find?
Children's Room
Provenance
Ex. Jaeger Collection Leonard A. Lauder Collection, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Fractional gift of Lauder (Accession date: March 20, 2002).
Credit Line
Leonard A. Lauder Collection of Japanese Postcards
Japanese, Late Meiji era - Showa era,
Artist Unknown, Japanese
Publisher Nippon yusen kaisha (NYK)
Place of Creation
Japan
Dimensions
Overall: 8.8 x 13.8 cm (3 7/16 x 5 7/16 in.)
Accession Number
Medium or Technique
Color lithograph; ink on card stock

28. What is going on in this image?
What do you see that makes you say that?
What more can we find?
Cat Catching a Rat
1877 (Meiji 10)
Kobayashi Kiyochika, Japanese, 1847–1915
Dimensions
33.2 x 45.2 cm (13 1/16 x 17 13/16 in.)
Medium
Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Classification
Prints
Accession Number

29. What is going on in this image?
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What more can we find?
At Dusk (Boston Common at Twilight)
1885–86 Childe Hassam (American, 1859–1935)
Dimensions
x cm (42 x 60 in.)
Accession Number
31.952
Medium or Technique
Oil on canvas

30. Lesson 8

31. What is going on in this image?
What do you see that makes you say that?
What more can we find?
Children on Fish Weir
Provenance
Stephen T. Rose, Boston; purchased May 1978.
Credit Line
Gift of Clifford S. Ackley
Carlo Naya, Italian (Venice (?)), 1816–1882
Dimensions
Image/Sheet: 23.9 x 18.4 cm (9 7/16 x 7 1/4 in.)
Accession Number
Medium or Technique
Photograph, albumen print

32. What is going on in this image?
What do you see that makes you say that?
What more can we find?
Chinese Children Playing in Snow
唐子の雪遊び
Japanese Edo period Artist Utagawa Kunitora (Japanese, active early 19th century), Publisher Yamamotoya Heikichi (Eikyûdô) (Japanese)
Dimensions
Horizontal ôban; 24.6 x 37.1 cm (9 11/16 x 14 5/8 in.)
Accession Number
Medium or Technique
Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper

33. Calm Morning
1904
Frank Weston Benson, American
Oil on Canvas
44 3/8 x 36 1/8 in.
Accession number: