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"Africa is a sphinx -- once she's taken hold of you she won't let go so easily" : the officer and collector Hans Glauning

Author:
Stelzig, Christine  Search this
Smithsonian Libraries African Art Index Project DSI  Search this
Subject:
Glauning, Hans 1868-1908 Art collections  Search this
Njoya Sultan of Bamoun 1876?-1933  Search this
Germany Heer Colonial forces  Search this
Type:
Articles
Place:
Cameroon
Cameroon Grassfields
Germany
Date:
2006
Topic:
Art--Collectors and collecting  Search this
Ethnological museums and collections  Search this
Call number:
GN1. .T822
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_908991
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"Das schönste Museum der Welt" : Museum Folkwang bis 1933 : Essays zur Geschichte des Museum Folkwang / [Herausgeber, Museum Folkwang, Essen ; Konzeption, Hartwig Fischer und Uwe M. Schneede]

Title:
Museum Folkwang bis 1933 : Essays zur Geschichte des Museum Folkwang
Author:
Museum Folkwang Essen  Search this
Fischer, Hartwig  Search this
Schneede, Uwe M  Search this
Subject:
Vogt, Paul 1926-  Search this
Museum Folkwang Essen History  Search this
Physical description:
199 p. : ill. ; 22 cm
Type:
Books
Interviews
Place:
Germany
Essen
Date:
2010
20th century
Topic:
Art museums--History  Search this
Art--Collectors and collecting--History  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_956698
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"First arts" of the Maghrib : exhibiting Berber culture at the Musée du quai Branly

Author:
Bernasek, Lisa 1975-  Search this
Smithsonian Libraries African Art Index Project DSI  Search this
Subject:
Musée du quai Branly  Search this
Type:
Exhibitions
Place:
France
Paris
Date:
2010
Topic:
Art, Berber  Search this
Art, Berber--Collectors and collecting  Search this
Berbers--Material culture  Search this
Call number:
DT193.5.B45 B468 2010
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_957169
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"Haunting echoes" : histories and exhibition strategies for collecting nineteenth-century African American crafts / by Theodore Carlisle Landsmark

Title:
Histories and exhibition strategies for collecting nineteenth century African American crafts
Author:
Landsmark, Theodore C  Search this
Landsmark, Theodore C Bibliography of African American material culture  Search this
Subject:
Chase, Judith Wragg  Search this
Greene, Carroll  Search this
Beard, Derrick Joshua 1958-  Search this
Old Slave Mart Museum and Library  Search this
Acacia Historical Arts International  Search this
Physical description:
3 v. (xiv, 1,086 leaves) : col. ill. ; 28 cm
Type:
Bibliography
Place:
United States
Date:
1999
19th century
Topic:
African American art--History--Collectors and collecting  Search this
African Americans--Material culture  Search this
Handicraft--History--Collectors and collecting  Search this
Call number:
N6538.N5 L26 1999
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_839490
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"To adorn this past" [electronic resource] : family furniture collection at the Blair House / Margaret Means Newman

Author:
Newman, Margaret Means  Search this
Subject:
Blair family Art collections  Search this
Blair, Gist 1860-1940 Art collections  Search this
Blair, Laura Lawson Ellis 1869-1942 Art collections  Search this
Blair House (Washington, D.C.)  Search this
Physical description:
1 online resource (viii, 144 p.) : ill. (some col.)
Type:
Electronic resources
Theses
Place:
Washington (D.C.)
United States
Date:
2009
18th century
19th century
Topic:
Furniture--Private collections  Search this
House furnishings--Collectors and collecting  Search this
Colonial revival (Art)  Search this
House furnishings--History  Search this
Furniture, Colonial  Search this
Furniture, Neoclassical  Search this
Call number:
F204.B5 N49 2009
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_971869
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'Making names' : the cutting edge renewal of African art in New York City, 1985-1996 / Craig M. Rawlings

Author:
Rawlings, Craig Michael  Search this
Smithsonian Libraries African Art Index Project DSI  Search this
Physical description:
p. 25-54
Type:
Books
Place:
New York (State)
New York
Date:
2001
Topic:
Art, African  Search this
Art, African--Marketing  Search this
African art market  Search this
Art galleries, Commercial  Search this
Art, African--Collectors and collecting  Search this
Call number:
VF-- African Art--General
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_987471
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'One speaks softly, like in a sacred place' : collecting, studying and exhibiting Congolese artefacts as African art in Belgium / Maarten Couttenier

Author:
Couttenier, Maarten  Search this
Smithsonian Libraries African Art Index Project DSI  Search this
Subject:
Musée royal de l'Afrique centrale  Search this
Physical description:
pages 1-40
Type:
Exhibitions
Place:
Belgium
Date:
2015
Topic:
Art, African--Appreciation  Search this
Collecting African art  Search this
Art, Congolese (Democratic Republic)--Collectors and collecting  Search this
Art, Congolese (Democratic Republic)  Search this
Colonial exhibitions  Search this
Call number:
VF-- Art, Congo (Democratic Republic)
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1104769
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'To sally forth & collect' : a further note on an eighteenth-century collection from West Africa / Jeremy Coote

Author:
Coote, Jeremy  Search this
Smithsonian Libraries African Art Index Project DSI  Search this
Subject:
Guest, Thomas -1798  Search this
Sims, John 1749-1831  Search this
Type:
Articles
Place:
Sierra Leone
Date:
2013
Topic:
Art objects, African--Collectors and collecting  Search this
Call number:
GN301 .J865
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1070482
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100 years of collecting in America : the story of Sotheby Parke Bernet / by Thomas E. Norton ; foreword by Douglas Dillon

Author:
Norton, Thomas E  Search this
Sotheby Parke Bernet Inc  Search this
Subject:
Sotheby Parke Bernet Inc  Search this
Physical description:
240 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
United States
Date:
1984
Topic:
Art--Collectors and collecting  Search this
Auctioneers  Search this
Call number:
N5215.N6 1984X
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_212860
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100 years of western art from Pittsburgh collections / Peter H. Hassrick

Author:
Hassrick, Peter H  Search this
Carnegie Institute Museum of Art  Search this
Physical description:
32 p. : ill. ; 31 cm
Type:
Exhibitions
In art
Place:
Pennsylvania
Pittsburgh
West (U.S.)
Date:
1982
Topic:
Art, American  Search this
Art--Collectors and collecting  Search this
Call number:
N8214.5.U6 H29 1982X
N8214.5.U6H29 1982X
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_147831
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1001 curious things : Ye Olde Curiosity Shop and Native American art / Kate C. Duncan

Title:
One thousand one curious things
One thousand and one curious things
Author:
Duncan, Kate C  Search this
Subject:
Standley, Joseph E Ethnological collections  Search this
Ye Olde Curiosity Shop (Seattle, Wash.) History  Search this
Physical description:
ix, 273 p. : ill., map ; 27 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
United States
Washington (State)
Seattle
Seattle (Wash.)
Date:
2000
C2000
Topic:
Ethnological museums and collections--History  Search this
Indian art--Collectors and collecting--History  Search this
Antiquities--Collectors and collecting--History  Search this
Antiquities  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_612731
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101-nin no kobijutsu / kōsei, bun Aoyagi Keisuke

Title:
101人の古美術 / 構成・文青柳恵介
Author:
Aoyagi, Keisuke 1950-  Search this
Physical description:
216 p. : col. ill., ports. ; 29 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
Japan
Date:
1998
Topic:
Art--Collectors and collecting  Search this
Art patronage  Search this
Call number:
N5285.J3 A2 1998
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_891824
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1893-1897 : fait et prises de guerre = 1893-1897 : facts and spoils of war / Bertrand Goy

Title:
1893-1897 : facts and spoils of war
Author:
Goy, Bertrand  Search this
Smithsonian Libraries African Art Index Project DSI  Search this
Subject:
Delafosse, Maurice 1870-1926  Search this
Type:
Articles
Date:
2012
Topic:
Art, Ivoirian--Collectors and collecting  Search this
Call number:
N7399.I8 G69 2012
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1027221
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18th century Venetian art in Canadian collections = L'art vénitien du dix-huitième siècle dans les collections canadiennes / George Knox ; [photography, Jim Jardine ; translation, Vanina Katz-Lahaigue]

Author:
Knox, George  Search this
Vancouver Art Gallery  Search this
Musée du Québec  Search this
Agnes Etherington Art Centre  Search this
Physical description:
108 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 31 cm
Type:
Exhibitions
Place:
Italy
Venice
Canada
Date:
1989
18th century
Topic:
Art, Italian  Search this
Art--Collectors and collecting  Search this
Call number:
N6921.V5 K59 1989X
N6921.V5K59 1989X
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_442777
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19-seiki zaigai Nihon korekushon kenkyū no genzai = Research on Japan-related overseas collections from the 19th century Hidaka Kaori sekinin henshū ; Ningen Bunka Kenkyū Kikō Kokuritsu Rekishi Minzoku Hakubutsukan hen

Title:
19世紀在外日本コレクション研究の現在 = Research on Japan-related overseas collections from the 19th century / 日高薰責任編集 ; 人間文化研究機構国立歴史民俗博物館編
Research on Japan-related overseas collections from the 19th century
Author:
International Symposium "Transmitters of Another Culture, Research on Japan-Related Overseas Collections From The 19th Century" (2017 : Kokuritsu Seiyō Bijutsukan) author  Search this
Editor:
Hidaka, Kaori 1961-  Search this
Kokuritsu Rekishi Minzoku Hakubutsukan (Japan)  Search this
Physical description:
386 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates illustrations (some color), portraits 27 cm
Type:
Congresses
Place:
Europe
Date:
2019
19th century
Topic:
Collectors and collecting  Search this
Collectors and collecting--History  Search this
Art, Japanese--Collectors and collecting  Search this
Call number:
N7354 .I38 2019
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1108411
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20th century design : the definitive illustrated sourcebook / Judith Miller

Author:
Miller, Judith 1951-  Search this
Physical description:
304 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Type:
Books
History
Date:
2009
20th century
Topic:
Design--History  Search this
Collectibles  Search this
Art objects--Collectors and collecting  Search this
Call number:
NK1390 .M53 2009
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1079457
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250 Meisterwerke : 25 Jahre Toto-Lottoerwerbungen für die Kunstmuseen in Baden-Württemberg : Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, 4. Oktober 1984 bis 6. Januar 1985 / [Redaktion, Werner Meyer]

Author:
Meyer, Werner 1953-  Search this
Staatsgalerie Stuttgart  Search this
Physical description:
275 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 32 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
Germany
Baden-Württemberg
Date:
1984
C1984
Topic:
Art--Collectors and collecting--Exhibitions  Search this
Art--Exhibitions  Search this
Call number:
N6872.A15 1984X
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_316901
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300 years of American art / compiled by Michael David Zellman

Author:
Zellman, Michael David  Search this
Physical description:
2 v. (xiv, 1021 p.) : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 29 cm
Type:
Biography
Place:
United States
Date:
1987
C1987
Topic:
Art, American  Search this
Art, American--Prices  Search this
Art as an investment  Search this
Art--Collectors and collecting  Search this
Artists  Search this
Call number:
N6505 .A56 1987
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_870181
view 3M sponsor pin created for the Olympic Games digital asset: 3M olympic pin

3M sponsor pin created for the Olympic Games

Physical Description:
metal (overall material)
Measurements:
overall: 1.5 cm x 2 cm; 9/16 in x 13/16 in
Object Name:
pin, olympic
olympic pin
pin, summer olympics
Level of sport:
Amateur  Search this
Web subject:
Collectors  Search this
Sports  Search this
Name of sport:
Olympics  Search this
ID Number:
2008.3038.07
Nonaccession number:
2008.3038
Catalog number:
2008.3038.07
See more items in:
Culture and the Arts: Sport and Leisure
Advertising
Data Source:
National Museum of American History
GUID:
http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746ac-b6ed-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:nmah_1343554
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A French renaissance ebony cabinet at the Detroit Institute of Arts : furniture as contemporary art / Phyllis Ross

Author:
Ross, Phyllis  Search this
Subject:
Detroit Institute of Arts Collectors and collecting  Search this
Physical description:
40 leaves, 37 leaves of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
France
Date:
1991
Topic:
Furniture--History  Search this
Interior decoration--History  Search this
Call number:
NK2547 .R82 1991
NK2547.R82 1991
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_441498

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