The Metropolitan Museum of Art of New York City, colloquially "the Met", is the largest art museum in the United States. With 7.3 million visitors to its three locations in 2016, it was the fourth most visited art museum in the world, and the fifth most visited museum of any kind. Its permanent collection contains over two million works, divided among seventeen curatorial departments. The main building, on the eastern edge of Central Park along Museum Mile in Manhattan 's Upper East Side is by area one of the world's largest art galleries. A much smaller second location, The Cloisters at Fort Tryon Park in Upper Manhattan, contains an extensive collection of art, architecture, and artifacts from Medieval Europe. On March 18, 2016, the museum opened the Met Breuer museum at Madison Avenue on the Upper East Side; it extends the museum's modern and contemporary art program.
A necklace is an article of jewelry that is worn around the neck. Necklaces may have been one of the earliest types of adornment worn by humans. They often serve ceremonial, religious, magical, or funerary purposes and are also used as symbols of wealth and status, given that they are commonly made of precious metals and stones.
Gisela Marie Augusta Richter, was a classical archaeologist and art historian. Gisela Richter was a prominent figure and an authority in her field.
Claire McCardell was an American fashion designer of ready-to-wear clothing in the twentieth century. She is credited with the creation of American sportswear.
Elizabeth "Betty" Woodman was an American ceramic artist.
William Anastasi is an American painter and visual artist. He has lived and worked in New York City since the early 1960s.
The Met Gala, formally called the Costume Institute Gala and also known as the Met Ball, is an annual fundraising gala for the benefit of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute in New York City. It marks the grand opening of the Costume Institute's annual fashion exhibit. Each year's event celebrates the theme of that year's Costume Institute exhibition, and the exhibition sets the tone for the formal dress of the night, since guests are expected to choose their fashion to match the theme of the exhibit.
Carolyn Schnurer was a fashion designer and a pioneer in American sportswear. Schnurer's designs have been featured in the magazines Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, and Life as well as in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. She has also received awards for her designs from Coty, The Cotton Council, International Sportswear, Miami Sportswear, and Boston Sportswear.
A Storm, a 1922 pastel painting by Georgia O'Keeffe, shows lightning over a lake and the reflection of the moon, while alluding to a feminine body shape. The medium is pastel on paper, mounted on illustration board. The painting is part of a collection of work depicting sea- and landscapes of Maine or Lake George, and were created by O'Keeffe between 1921 and 1922. The technique and style of A Storm reflects O'Keeffe's earlier preference for charcoal as a medium. It was donated to the Metropolitan Museum of Art by a private collector in 1981.
Hiawatha and Minnehaha are 1868 sculptures by Edmonia Lewis. They are in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art on view in gallery 759.
Woman Seen from the Back is an 1860s photograph by 19th century French photographer, Vicomte Onesipe Aguado de las Marismas. It is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and was purchased by the Museum in 2005 as part of the Gilman Photographs Collection.
Mother and Child is a painting by Mary Cassatt. It is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Portrait of the Artist is an 1878 painting (self-portrait) by Mary Cassatt. It is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Bamboo weaving is a form of bambooworking and traditional Japanese craft, with a range of fine and decorative arts especially in basket weaving.
Mabel Rose Welch was an American painter of portrait miniatures.
Anthony Viti is an American artist who lives and works at Blooklyn, New York. He is a visual artist and an art educator. Viti currently teaches at School of Visual Arts and Parsons.
Paul Frederick Berdanier (1879–1961) was an American illustrator and cartoonist whose work is represented in the National Gallery of Art, the Smithsonian Institution, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art has a number of blue faience vases and chalices from Ancient Egypt in its collection. The vessels, which range in condition from full works to fragments, are dated to the Third Intermediate Period of Egypt.
Irene Hilde Aronson was an American painter and printmaker of German birth.
