1. MFA VTS: Scenes from 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?
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 cm) Canvas size: 52 x 35 inches (132.1 x 88.9 cm)
Accession Number
Medium or Technique
Oil on canvas

4. The Questioner of the Sphinx
1863
Elihu Vedder, American
92.1 x cm.
Oil on canvas
Accession number:

5. 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

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?
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

8. 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 cm (26 1/8 x 32 in.)
Accession Number
35.52
Medium or Technique
Oil on canvas

9. 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:

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?
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
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?
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

13. 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

14. Lesson 4

15. 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 cm (53 1/8 x 78 7/8 in.)
Accession Number
56.13
Medium or Technique
Oil on canvas

16. 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
Medium or Technique
Photograph, gelatin silver print

17. What is going on in this image?
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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
Medium or Technique
Oil on canvas

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?
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

20. 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

21. 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
Dimensions
Height: 36.1 cm (14 3/16 in.); diameter: 25.9 cm ( 10 3/16 in.)
Accession Number
Medium or Technique
Ceramic, Black Figure