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This field contains information from the following fields: Creator Name, Creator Culture, Creator Role, Creation Place, Creation Technique, Associated Events..., Concepts-Subject, Concepts-Function, and Concepts-Style/Period. Since it is not an official MESL field, no definition has been provided.
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Definition: The name of a person or corporate entity responsible for the design or creation of the object. Where an individual artist is unknown, this field should contain a designation by school and period or the name of the culture group responsible for the creation of the work. The name should represent the attribution currently accepted by the holding institution.
Lists of entries, when available, are linked below:
Fowler Museum of Cultural History:
George Eastman House:
Harvard University Art Museums:
Library of Congress:
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston:
National Gallery of Art:
National Museum of American Art:
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Definition: The name of the culture group responsible for creation of a work that is not attributed to an individual, or the nationality of the individual creator/maker.
Lists of entries, when available, are linked below:
Fowler Museum of Cultural History:
George Eastman House:
Harvard University Art Museums:
Library of Congress:
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston:
National Gallery of Art:
National Museum of American Art:
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Definition: A title given to the object by the creator/maker, curator, or owner or the text of a caption that appeared with the image as in prints, cartoons, and photographs.
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Definition: The classification of the object by type.
Lists of entries, when available, are linked below:
Fowler Museum of Cultural History:
George Eastman House:
Harvard University Art Museums:
Library of Congress:
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston:
National Gallery of Art:
National Museum of American Art:
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Definition: The first & last year of creation or the lower & upper limit of a date range attributed to the execution of an object. Expressed as year only, the dates may reflect a specific date, an approximate date, or the lower & upper limits of a date range. Be sure to include the signs ">" or "<" before the date if you are searching on a date range.
Examples:
1733
- 320
Creation Place: Back to Fielded Search to the top Definition: The geographical location in which an object was created.
Lists of entries, when available, are linked below:
Fowler Museum of Cultural History:
George Eastman House:
Harvard University Art Museums:
Library of Congress:
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston:
National Gallery of Art:
National Museum of American Art:
Creation Technique: Back to Fielded Search to the top Definition: A term describing how the object was created.
Lists of entries, when available, are linked below:
Fowler Museum of Cultural History:
George Eastman House:
Harvard University Art Museums:
Library of Congress:
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston:
National Gallery of Art:
National Museum of American Art:
Support: Back to Fielded Search to the top Definition: The material on which a two-dimensional work of art has been executed.
Material/Medium Back to Fielded Search to the top Definition: The substance(s) of which the object is made.
Lists of entries, when available, are linked below:
Fowler Museum of Cultural History:
George Eastman House:
Harvard University Art Museums:
Library of Congress:
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston:
National Gallery of Art:
National Museum of American Art:
Assoc. Events, People, Organizations & Places: Back to Fielded Search to the top Definition: The name of a generic or specific event with which the object is associated, a person or organization associated with an object other than in the process of creation, or a place associated with the discovery or use of an object.
Lists of entries, when available, are linked below:
Fowler Museum of Cultural History: [NOT USED]
George Eastman House:
Harvard University Art Museums:
Library of Congress:
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston:
National Gallery of Art: [NOT USED]
National Museum of American Art:
Concepts Subject: Back to Fielded Search to the top Definition: The content or subject matter of the object.
Lists of entries, when available, are linked below:
Fowler Museum of Cultural History:
George Eastman House:
Harvard University Art Museums:
Library of Congress:
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston:
National Gallery of Art:
National Museum of American Art:
Concepts Style Period: Back to Fielded Search to the top Definition: A term identifying a style or period in the history of art. These terms will probably be in the AAT, except where the AAT is too Western Art centric.
Lists of entries, when available, are linked below:
Fowler Museum of Cultural History:
George Eastman House:
Harvard University Art Museums:
Library of Congress:
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston:
National Gallery of Art:
National Museum of American Art:
Concepts Function: Back to Fielded Search to the top Definition: A term describing the role the object played.
Image Filename: Back to Fielded Search to the top Definition:A unique number that identifies each image.
The following fields are displayed with the full record of the image, but they are not searchable fields. The exception to this is Creator Role, which is searchable by using the keyword field.
Creator Role
Definition: The role or activity performed by the creator/maker in the conception, design, or production.Dimension/extent-quantity-unit
Definition: Measurements associated with any particular dimension of the object.Parts/Pieces
Definition: The names of parts of the object and the number of each, or designation of pieces.Marks/Inscriptions
Definition: Any signatures, dates, annotations, makers marks, collectors marks or other distinguishing inscriptions, along with reference to their location.
Edition/State
Definition: A term denoting the stage in a production process or the named production run to which an object belongs.
Description
Definition: Any descriptive text, remarks and comments documenting the object or commenting on it from an interpretive/curatorial perspective.
Comments: This could be a full entry from a published catalog, or a multiple page essay.
Accompanying Image Captions
Definition: A list captions to be associated with the image files listed in the previous field.Accompanying Documents
Definition: A list of files containing other electronic documents which relate to the object.