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Talking About Art

Talking About Art. Reading an Object Label, 101. How to Read an Object Label. When you visit a museum, you'll notice that every work of art is identified by a label. Once you know how to read an object label, you can learn a lot about the works of art.

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Talking About Art

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  1. Talking About Art Reading an Object Label, 101

  2. How to Read an Object Label • When you visit a museum, you'll notice that every work of art is identified by a label. Once you know how to read an object label, you can learn a lot about the works of art. • Object labels provide you with many helpful clues that will help you learn some important facts about the artwork such as the name of the artist and the year it was created.

  3. Ross Dickinson, Valley Farms, 1934, oil on canvas, 39 7/8 x 50 1/8 in. (101.4 x 127.3 cm.), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Transfer from the U.S. Department of Labor 1964.1.40

  4. Object Label Ross Dickinson, Valley Farms, 1934, oil on canvas, 39 7/8 x 50 1/8 in. (101.4 x 127.3 cm.), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Transfer from the U.S. Department of Labor 1964.1.40

  5. Ross Dickinson, Valley Farms, 1934, oil on canvas, 39 7/8 x 50 1/8 in. (101.4 x 127.3 cm.), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Transfer from the U.S. Department of Labor 1964.1.40 Ross Dickinson is the name of the artist, sometimes the dates of birth and death follow the artist’s name.

  6. Ross Dickinson, Valley Farms, 1934, oil on canvas, 39 7/8 x 50 1/8 in. (101.4 x 127.3 cm.), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Transfer from the U.S. Department of Labor 1964.1.40 Valley Farmsis the title of the artwork (often this is italicized)

  7. Ross Dickinson, Valley Farms,1934, oil on canvas, 39 7/8 x 50 1/8 in. (101.4 x 127.3 cm.), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Transfer from the U.S. Department of Labor 1964.1.40 1934is the year in which the work of art was created

  8. Ross Dickinson, Valley Farms, 1934, oil on canvas, 39 7/8 x 50 1/8 in. (101.4 x 127.3 cm.), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Transfer from the U.S. Department of Labor 1964.1.40 oil on canvasis the medium or the materials used by the artist to make the work of art

  9. Ross Dickinson, Valley Farms, 1934, oil on canvas, 39 7/8 x 50 1/8 in. (101.4 x 127.3 cm.), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Transfer from the U.S. Department of Labor 1964.1.40 39 7/8 x 50 1/8 in. (101.4 x 127.3 cm.)tells you the dimensions of the work of art

  10. Ross Dickinson, Valley Farms, 1934, oil on canvas, 39 7/8 x 50 1/8 in. (101.4 x 127.3 cm.), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Transfer from the U.S. Department of Labor 1964.1.40 Smithsonian American Art Museum tells you who owns the work of art or to which museum’s collection it belongs

  11. Ross Dickinson, Valley Farms, 1934, oil on canvas, 39 7/8 x 50 1/8 in. (101.4 x 127.3 cm.), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Transfer from the U.S. Department of Labor 1964.1.40 Transfer from the U.S. Department of Labor tells how the museum came to own the object

  12. Ross Dickinson, Valley Farms, 1934, oil on canvas, 39 7/8 x 50 1/8 in. (101.4 x 127.3 cm.), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Transfer from the U.S. Department of Labor 1964.1.40 1964.1.40 this is the accession number. It tells you that this work came to be a part of the museum’s collection in 1964 and of the objects collected that year- it was in the first lot or grouping and within that grouping , it was the 40th object.

  13. What can you find out from this object label? Int'l Surface No. 1 1960 Stuart Davis Born: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1892 Died: New York, New York 1964 oil on canvas 57 1/8 x 45 1/8 in. (145.2 x 114.6 cm.) Smithsonian American Art Museum Gift of S.C. Johnson & Son, Inc. 1969.47.55

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