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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 943 Collections and/or Records:

Throwing the Bolas.

 Item
Identifier: Art Survey No. 989

Tiger Beetle / LR "Alma Wentzel Froderstrom"

 Item
Identifier: Art Survey No. 127
Scope and Contents

Large central detail of an insect on dirt. Frame: Green painted wood, glazed, 29 x 35.

Dates: undated

Tockus hemprichii / LR "JG Keulemans"

 Item
Identifier: Art Survey No. 133
Scope and Contents

Two birds: one male, one female, male has green berry in mouth, facing each other. Inscription: On reverse "Hornbills/ 9/ Early draft of plate 52/ Tockus hemprichii."

Dates: undated

Toshio Asaeda coral reef fishes collection

 Collection
Identifier: Mss .A83
Scope and Contents Collection contains 21 paintings of fish painted observed during the 1933 Templeton Crocker Expedition to the Solomon Islands, with the exception of no. 8, which was painted during the 1930-1931 Zane Grey Expedition to the South Pacific. Text on the verso of each painting (not all fishes are identified) from which titles were derived.All paintings are signed either at lower right or at lower left.All items except the last two (numbered 23-24) are 26 x 36 cm. The last...
Dates: 1931-1933

Total Eclipse / LL "D.O. Stephens" - "Peru 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

Total Solar Eclipse

 Item
Identifier: Art Survey No. 50