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Museum of Primitive Art

(Encyclopedia)Museum of Primitive Art, New York City, a privately supported institution, established in 1957. It was devoted entirely to the arts of the indigenous cultures of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas and ...

naturalism, in art

(Encyclopedia)naturalism, in art, a tendency toward strict adherence to the physical appearance of nature and rejection of ideal forms. Artists as diverse as Velázquez, J. F. Millet, and Monet, have followed natur...

Mogul art and architecture

(Encyclopedia)Mogul art and architecture: see Mughal art and architecture. ...

Chicago, Art Institute of

(Encyclopedia)Chicago, Art Institute of: see Art Institute of Chicago. ...

Arabian art and architecture

(Encyclopedia)Arabian art and architecture: see Islamic art and architecture. ...

Pennsylvania Museum of Art

(Encyclopedia)Pennsylvania Museum of Art: see Philadelphia Museum of Art. ...

Siamese art and architecture

(Encyclopedia)Siamese art and architecture: see Southeast Asian art and architecture. ...

Broad Contemporary Art Museum

(Encyclopedia)Broad Contemporary Art Museum: see under Los Angeles County Museum of Art. ...

Weber, Max, American painter

(Encyclopedia)Weber, Max wĕbˈər [key], 1881–1961, American painter, b. Russia. At 10 he accompanied his family to Brooklyn, N.Y. He studied art at Pratt Institute and in 1905 went abroad. In Paris he studied u...

American Indians

(Encyclopedia)American Indians: see Americas, antiquity and prehistory of the; Natives, Middle American; Natives, North American; Natives, South American. ...