Art Survey
Found in 940 Collections and/or Records:
Art Survey No. 1: Sun Eclipse by the Earth as Seen on the Moon / LL "J.P. Wilson/1938.", 1938
Foreground mountainous, park landscape / middle left sun eclipsed by moon.
Art Survey No. 2: Last Night / LL "Albert Operti", 1896
Painting of the Ahnighito meteorite centered with snow and ice fields surrounding it. Inscription: LL "Peary Expedition 1896-1897/The Last Night August 31st 1896". "The Ahnighito meteorite is here shown as abandoned by Peary in 1896. Though Peary visited the meteorite in 1894, 1895, and 1896, he was not successful in removing it until 1897. Painting by Albert Operti from sketch made by him in 1896". label text. No frame.
Art Survey No. 3: Sun Eclipse by the Earth as Seen on the Moon / LL "JP Wilson 1940", 1940
Painting of rock landscape in foreground, earth and stars in sky. Conceptualization of the May 14, 1938 eclipse, second version.
Art Survey No. 5: Aurora Arc / LL "Leonard M. Davis", unknown
Ultramarine-blue landscape and sky with brushy white double aurora arcing across the sky.
Art Survey No. 7: Mars as Seen From its Outer Moon "Deimos" / LR "H.R. Butler", 1930
Rocky landscape in foreground with Mars and stars in background. Inscription: Back "Mars as seen from its Outer Moon Deimos."
Art Survey No. 9: The Earth as Seen From the Moon / LL "H.R. Butler", 1925
Rocky landscape with crater and the earth and stars in background.
Art Survey No. 10-14: [Hydrogen prominences] [art original] / [H.R. Butler], 1927
Series of 5 paintings depicting the prominences of the chromosphere of the sun. These were originally displayed on the west wall of the Pro-Astronomic Hall (and intended to be installed in the proposed Hall of Astronomy) along with two similar paintings, depicting the prominences observed during the eclipse of 1918, the "Heliosaurus" and the "Eagle."
Art Survey No. 18: Gemini, Regulus, and Zodiacal Light / LL "D.O. Stephens" - "Peru 1937", 1937
The Art Survey is an inventory of artwork throughout the Museum. It is not exhaustive: numerous additional artworks are documented in the library catalog after the survey's completion. Additional research on artworks in the Museum is in progress.
Art Survey No. 19: The Shadow in the East following Third Contact / LL "D.O. Stephens" - "Peru 1937", 1937
Mountains, buildings, and crowd in foreground / clouds, light and stars in background. "The first bit of sunlight strikes the mountain top eclipse camp as the moon's shadow retreats to the east." Inscription: On stretcher " 'The Shadow in the East following Third Contact'/ made at time of Eclipse - Cerro de Pasco, Peru 14,400/painted June 1937 two days after from sketch/D.O. Stephens - This shows the eclipse site and crowd."
Art Survey No. 22: Total Eclipse / LL "D.O. Stephens" - "Peru 1937", 1937
"With the visible sun hidden by the dark disk of the moon, the usually invisible streamers of the corona flesh forth, extending nearly two million miles in space, these plumes of the sun's upper atmosphere brighten a darkened sky." Inscription: "June 8 1937, 5.21 Cerro de Pasco, Peru Altitude 14,400".