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Art Survey

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: Distinguishes art works in the museum that were identified and described as part of an art survey, circa 2000.

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

 Item
Identifier: Art Survey No. 1
Scope and Contents

Foreground mountainous, park landscape / middle left sun eclipsed by moon.

Dates: 1938
Found in: Museum Archives at the Gottesman Research Library / Art Survey No. 1-1459, AMNH Art Survey

Art Survey No. 2: Last Night / LL "Albert Operti", 1896

 Item — Item 1: [Barcode: 100119093]
Identifier: Art Survey No. 2
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1896
Found in: Museum Archives at the Gottesman Research Library / Art Survey No. 1-1459, AMNH Art Survey

Art Survey No. 3: Sun Eclipse by the Earth as Seen on the Moon / LL "JP Wilson 1940", 1940

 Item — Frame 1: [Barcode: 100119116]
Identifier: Art Survey No. 3
Scope and Contents

Painting of rock landscape in foreground, earth and stars in sky. Conceptualization of the May 14, 1938 eclipse, second version.

Dates: 1940
Found in: Museum Archives at the Gottesman Research Library / Art Survey No. 1-1459, AMNH Art Survey

Art Survey No. 5: Aurora Arc / LL "Leonard M. Davis", unknown

 Item
Identifier: Art Survey No. 5
Scope and Contents

Ultramarine-blue landscape and sky with brushy white double aurora arcing across the sky.

Dates: unknown
Found in: Museum Archives at the Gottesman Research Library / Art Survey No. 1-1459, AMNH Art Survey

Art Survey No. 7: Mars as Seen From its Outer Moon "Deimos" / LR "H.R. Butler", 1930

 Item
Identifier: Art Survey No. 7
Scope and Contents

Rocky landscape in foreground with Mars and stars in background. Inscription: Back "Mars as seen from its Outer Moon Deimos."

Dates: 1930
Found in: Museum Archives at the Gottesman Research Library / Art Survey No. 1-1459, AMNH Art Survey

Art Survey No. 9: The Earth as Seen From the Moon / LL "H.R. Butler", 1925

 Item — Frame 1: [Barcode: 100119100]
Identifier: Art Survey No. 9
Scope and Contents

Rocky landscape with crater and the earth and stars in background.

Dates: 1925
Found in: Museum Archives at the Gottesman Research Library / Art Survey No. 1-1459, AMNH Art Survey

Art Survey No. 10-14: [Hydrogen prominences] [art original] / [H.R. Butler], 1927

 Series
Identifier: Art Survey No. 10-14
Scope and Contents

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."

Dates: 1927
Found in: Museum Archives at the Gottesman Research Library / Art Survey No. 1-1459, AMNH Art Survey

Art Survey No. 18: Gemini, Regulus, and Zodiacal Light / LL "D.O. Stephens" - "Peru 1937", 1937

 Item
Identifier: Art Survey No. 18
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

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.

Dates: 1937
Found in: Museum Archives at the Gottesman Research Library / Art Survey No. 1-1459, AMNH Art Survey

Art Survey No. 19: The Shadow in the East following Third Contact / LL "D.O. Stephens" - "Peru 1937", 1937

 Item
Identifier: Art Survey No. 19
Scope and Contents

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."

Dates: 1937
Found in: Museum Archives at the Gottesman Research Library / Art Survey No. 1-1459, AMNH Art Survey

Art Survey No. 22: Total Eclipse / LL "D.O. Stephens" - "Peru 1937", 1937

 Item
Identifier: Art Survey No. 22
Scope and Contents

"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".

Dates: 1937
Found in: Museum Archives at the Gottesman Research Library / Art Survey No. 1-1459, AMNH Art Survey
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