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Image or Art Object

Painting (Viewed Firsthand)

Bearden, Romare. The Train. 1975, Museum of Modern Art, New York City.

 

Painting (Viewed Online)

Bearden, Romare. The Train. 1975. MOMA, www.moma.org/collection/works/65232?locale=en.

 

Painting (Viewed in a Book)

Velázquez, Diego. An Old Woman Cooking Eggs. Circa 1618, Scottish National Gallery. The Vanishing Velázquez: A Nineteenth-Century Bookseller's Obsession with a Lost Masterpiece, by Laura Cumming, Scribner, 2016, p. 27.

 

Photograph (Viewed Firsthand)

Cameron, Julia Margaret. Alfred, Lord Tennyson. 1866, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City.

 

Photograph (Viewed Online)

Silver, Walter. Factory. 1986. New York Public Library Digital Collections, digitalcollections.nypl.org,/items/51fd9310-ea71-0131-8221-58d385a7bbd0.

 

Sculpture

Rodin, Auguste. Christ and Mary Magdalene. 1908, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles. Marble Sculpture.