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Categories for the Description of Works of Art


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Watercolor, figures

Object/Work Catalog Level: item
Type: watercolor
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Authority
Classification Terms:
           prints and drawings
           American art
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Titles or Names Text: Nous Quatre à Paris
    Preference: preferred
    Type: repository
    Language: French
Text: We Four in Paris
    Preference: alternate
    Type: translated
Text: Four Men Playing Cards
    Preference: alternate
    Type: descriptive
Free text
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Creation Creator Description: Palmer Hayden (American painter, 1893-1973) Free text
  Identity: Hayden, Palmer
Role: painter
Authority
Authority
  Creation Date: ca. 1930  
Earliest: 1925  Latest: 1935
Free text
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Styles/Periods/ Groups/Movements Indexing Term: Harlem Renaissance Authority
Measurements Dimensions Description: 55.88 x 45.72 cm (22 x 18 inches) Free text
  Value: 55.88 Unit: cm Type: height
Value: 45.72 Unit: cm Type: width
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Materials and Techniques Description: watercolor on paper Free text
  Material Names:
        watercolor Role: medium
        paper Role: support
Authority
Subject Matter Indexing Terms:
        human figures
        genre
        portraits
        African American
        card playing
Authority
Descriptive Note Text: A watercolor painting in the modern style, which had first developed in New York, by a prolific African-American artist that documents the "Negro Colony" of artists in Paris during the 1920s and 1930s. Free text
Current Location Repository Name/Geographic Location: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, New York, United States)
Repository Number: unavailable
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Revised 28 August 2006