1. MFA VTS: Urbanization and Industrialization in Art
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

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Boston Harbor
about 1850–55 Fitz Henry Lane (American, 1804–1865)
DIMENSIONS
66.04 x cm (26 x 42 in.)
ACCESSION NUMBER
66.339
MEDIUM OR TECHNIQUE
Oil on canvas

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Title: Man and Movie Poster, New Orleans Date: 1935–36
By: Walker Evans
American, 1903–1975
Object Number: 
Status: Not On View
Dimensions: Image: 17.2 x 22.3 cm (6 3/4 x 8 3/4 in.) Sheet: 20.1 x 25.2 cm (7 15/16 x 9 15/16 in.) Medium: Photograph, gelatin silver print Credit Line: Sophie M. Friedman Fund Web Description: When Walker Evans was hired by Roosevelt's Resettlement Administration in 1935, he embarked on one of the most productive and creative periods in his career. He made several trips to the South, where he documented the lives of the rural poor as well as residents of cities, always drawn to vernacular artifacts of American society such as urban signs and roadside billboards. This direct, uninflected image powerfully contrasts the careworn look of the black man and the cheerful smiles of the huge white faces on the weathered movie poster behind him. It was probably shot with a right-angle viewfinder, which Evans sometimes used to take revealing pictures of people who were unaware they were being photographed.  

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Title: Old Brooklyn Bridge Date: about 1941
By: Joseph Stella
American, 1877–1946
Object Number: 
Current Location: |, MFA, 326 American Modern: The 1920s and 30s (Axelrod) E 

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Title: A Marble Quarry Date: 1851
By: James Hope
American (born in Scotland), 1818–1892
Object Number: 62.275
Status: Not On View
Dimensions: 45.72 x cm (18 x 24 in.) Medium: Oil on canvas Credit Line: Gift of Maxim Karolik for the M. and M. Karolik Collection of American Paintings, 1815–1865 Provenance: The artist; Thelma Brady, Westbrook, Conn., by about 1905; WIlliam Oelschlager, Jackson Heights, New York, 1956; to Maxim Karolik, Newport, R.I., 1957; to MFA, 1962, gift of Maxim Karolik.

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Silk Industry
蚕織図
Japanese Meiji era 1882 Kondo Kaho (Japanese)
DIMENSIONS
Image: x 54.6 cm (49 7/8 x 21 1/2 in.)
ACCESSION NUMBER
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Hanging scroll; ink, color and gold on silk

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Title: Men and Machines Date: 1941
By: Henry Billings
American, 1901–1987
Object Number: 
Status: Not On View
Dimensions: Sheet: 43.2 x 54 cm (17 x 21 1/4 in.) Image: 35.9 x 40 cm (14 1/8 x 15 3/4 in.) Medium: Lithograph Credit Line: Fund in memory of Horatio Greenough Curtis Descriptions:
one from a set of three
Provenance: Christie's East, New York, about 1995; from whom purchased by Hirschl & Adler, New York; purchased by MFA, Dec. 18, 2002.

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Pigeons
1910 John Sloan (American, 1871–1951)
DIMENSIONS
66.36 x cm (26 1/8 x 32 in.)
ACCESSION NUMBER
35.52
MEDIUM OR TECHNIQUE
Oil on canvas

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Title: Panoramic View of the Tokyo Industrial Exposition (Tôkyô kangyô hakurankai zenzu) 「東京勧業博覧会全図」 Date: 1906 (Meiji 39), printed December 18, published December 29 Object Number: 
Status: Not On View
Medium: Color lithograph on paper Credit Line: Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection Provenance: Purchased by Fred Sharf; 2008, given by Fred Sharf to the MFA