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Light and Shadow

Description: A red triangle, three brown and black circles and a sharp spear shape dominate the center of the composition. The background of the painting, upper left and lower right corners, are bright yellow.
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Date: 1922
Creator: Red'ko, Klyment Nikolaevich

The Learned, Court of the Fiestas, Corrido of the Agrarian Revolution

Description: A group of people surround an elderly man with a long white beard and wearing a funnel on his head. In the background are men wearing straps of ammunition. One man in the foreground sits on a stack of books and another man in the foreground holds a feather quill pen and sits on an elephant sculpture. Some text in Spanish drapes across the top of the mural panel.
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Date: 1923/1928
Creator: Rivera, Diego

Wall Street Banquet, Court of Fiestas, Corridor of the Agrarian Revolution

Description: This panel of the mural depicts eight people at a dinner table. On the table is a sculpture resembling the Statue of Liberty. Behind the table appears to be a vault with a black figure holding the vault. Each of the diners holds a portion of a cash register tape that emerges from a cash register underneath glass.
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Date: 1923/1928
Creator: Rivera, Diego

Shoes

Description: Shoes of brown alligator skin. Mary-jane style buckled strap over instep, high cuban heel, plain leather heel and toe cap, strips of leather around toe, heel, strap and instep decorated with zig-zag cutouts. Measurements: length 23cm. Width 7.5cm. Height 13.25cm. Heel 5.75cm, 2.25in. Left Shoe: no markings Right Shoe: Alfred J Ruby / Inc. / Chicago Detroit
Date: 1920
Creator: Ruby, Alfred

Color Form Synchromy

Description: Painting of red, yellow, white, green, blue and black abstract composition with primary emphasis is color. This work is inspired by Cubism which set out to reassert the importance of color in relationship to line in the creation of form.
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Date: 1922~/1923~
Creator: Russell, Morgan

New Year's Card: Card Game

Description: The vertically oriented postcard depicts an aerial view of a woman in a kimono playing a card game. She is seated and her opponent is partially seen in silhouette. The ground of the card is a pale blue. There is some Japanese text in red in the upper right hand corner of the postcard. The woman's kimono includes the card suits, spades, clubs, hearts, and diamonds.
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Date: 1920/1930~
Creator: S. Riyo

New Year's Card: Dancing Couple

Description: A couple dances in this vertically oriented postcard. The woman is wearing a kimono and the man seen behind her is in black. The style of the rendering is reminiscent of Art Deco. Some Japanese text is in the lower right corner of the postcard. The ground of the card is a light blue.
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Date: 1920/1930~
Creator: S. Riyo

New Year's Card: Going to Shimonoseki

Description: A man and woman are seen from behind while the man carries many packages. The woman walks in front of him and she wears a black and white striped stole, a red hat and a green coat with fur trim. There is some red Japanese text in the lower left corner of the postcard and in the upper left an inset with blue Japanese text.
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Date: 1920/1930~
Creator: S. Riyo

New Year's Card: Women with Silhouetted Man in Top Hat

Description: The vertically oriented postcard depicts two women in clothing stylish in the 1920s. In the lower right hand corner is a silhouette of a man in a top hat. The shadows of the women are sharply delineated behind them. There is some Japanese text in the upper right hand corner of the postcard.
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Date: 1920/1930~
Creator: S. Riyo

Horsehair hat

Description: Hat of lavender horsehair overlaid with lace and velvet. The daytime hat has a high, domed crown of braided/woven horsehair. Around the sides of the crown is a band of pale lavender velvet overlaid with a band of dark blue velvet, which itself is partly overlaid by pale blue lace. Around the back of the crown is a band of pale blue velvet, a section of which is also at the base of the crown at the front of the hat. The brim is of the same horsehair, and stitched up in back to create the effect … more
Date: 1920/1929
Creator: Sanger Brothers
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