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No. 18: Spencer Tunick Photograph
Artist: Spencer TunickTitle: Photograph at the Piazza NavonaDate: 2001Culture: AmericanProvenance: Signed copy given to EAH as “payment” for being a subject in the photograph. Currently hanging in her...
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Leopold Graf von Kalckreuth, Children by the Christmas Tree
After I woke up from my nap, there was an unusual noise and bustle in the house and the smell of cookies. Marta took me and Anna on a walk and brought the sled so that she could pull us when we got...
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No. 19: Miniature Embroidered Doll
Artist: UnknownTitle: UntitledDate: Early 20th Century?Culture: American?Provenance: Ended up with EAH’s Christmas things after the death of her mother. My Christmas tree is a minefield of memories,...
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Cynthia W. Iliff, Untitled (Men Playing Cards), 1942
Cynthia W. Iliff, Untitled (Men Playing Cards), 1942, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Gift of Jerome and Anne Kaplan, 1992 (https://www.philamuseum.org/collections/permanent/86967.html?mulR=1407603385|12)...
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No. 20: My Violin
Artist: UnknownTitle: ViolinDate: 1950s?Culture: AmericanProvenance: Handed down to EAH via her mother and grandfather. At the back of my closet, hidden behind a curtain of long-unworn dresses, is a...
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Sergei Avdeev, Evening Outdoors, 2014
The light had already been fading for a while that afternoon as we flung ourselves over snow drifts and up tall mountains of shoveled snow and along the garage rooftops which we could reach because...
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No. 21: What’s Missing
Artist: LifeTitle: What’s Missing/Absence/Loss/Memory/TimeDate: TimelessCulture: Metaphysical, PhilosophicalProvenance: I wish I knew. I haven’t written in a long time. Largely that’s because I’ve...
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Félix Vallotton, La Valse, 1893
It was the end of summer, and the adults overindulged in wine and food and the golden light of the sun setting on the lake. They danced to the quiet music of the water lapping at the shoreline and the...
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No. 22: Turkish Souvenir
Artist: UnknownTitle: TchotchkeDate: 1970s?Culture: Turkish (?)Provenance: Bought by my grandparents probably on vacation in Turkey in the 1970s My grandfather is an endless source of inspiration for...
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