Dr. Arthur M. Sackler

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A rough-hewn block of basalt sits upright on a rectangular stone base on a pale pink stone floor against a stone wall. In this photograph, we are off the front left corner of the free-standing sculpture in a space filled with natural light. The tongue-shaped basalt is narrower from front to back and wider from side to side. It is about three times taller than it is wide at its widest. Some of the dark brown basalt running up the center of the block is smooth but most is pitted. Strips up either side have been carved to expose rough, copper-colored stone, some of which has flaked away. The tan stone base is speckled densely with gray, and the leaves of an indoor but mature tree bow into the top left corner of the photograph.
Isamu Noguchi, Great Rock of Inner Seeking, 1974, basalt, Gift of Arthur M. Sackler, M.D., and Mortimer D. Sackler, M.D., 1976.58.1

Great Rock of Inner Seeking

Isamu Noguchi · 1974 · basalt ·  Accession ID  1976.58.1

Giovanni Battista Foggini, A Monstrance with Two Angels Supporting a Chalice, black chalk and pen and brown ink, partially squared in black chalk, on laid paper, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund, 1995.15.1

A Monstrance with Two Angels Supporting a Chalice

Giovanni Battista Foggini · · black chalk and pen and brown ink, partially squared in black chalk, on laid paper ·  Accession ID  1995.15.1

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Interior of the Temple of Neptune

Giovanni Battista Piranesi · 1777/1778 · etching ·  Accession ID  1981.42.1