Historic New England

Gropius Christmas Card

Handmade Christmas card on a single rectangular sheet of blue paper. Gouache background with sand glued to surface. Ink sketch of a bird's head with a long beak. Splotches of orange, pink, and green paint.

Date: 1960-1970

Maker: Kepes, Juliet (Artist) Kepes, Gyorgy (Artist)

Material: paper (fiber product), sand, gouache (paint), ink, graphite pencils

GUSN: 334250

Accession Number: 1984.496.1

Gropius Christmas Card

Woven textiles layered on top of blue paper with red handwritten inscription.

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product), weaving, ink

GUSN: 334251

Accession Number: 1984.1759

Gropius Christmas Card

Folded card made of thin, semi-translucent white paper with blue and green checkered pattern printed on exterior. Interior bears printed inscriptions in blue ink.

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product), printing ink

GUSN: 334252

Accession Number: 1984.1760

Gropius Christmas Card

Semi-translucent paper with block print in black ink in a design reminiscent of a Christmas ornament, with a thin piece of wood affixed to make a tear-drop shaped border. The ends of the piece of wood are tied together with a piece of red string.

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product), printing ink, wood (plant material), string (fiber product)

GUSN: 334253

Accession Number: 1984.1754

Gropius Christmas Card

Painting of shapes, a bird, and a lion in the bird's stomach on a piece of thin wood. Handwritten inscription on front, lower right corner and on a label affixed to back.

Maker: Kepes, Juliet (Artist) Kepes, Gyorgy (Artist)

Material: wood (plant material), paint (coating), ink, paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 334254

Accession Number: 1984.496.2

Gropius Christmas Card

Painting on paper with red background, black arrows, and a rooster-like bird in white, black, red, and green. Handwritten inscription along left edge of paper.

Maker: Kepes, Juliet (Artist) Kepes, Gyorgy (Artist)

Material: paper (fiber product), paint (coating), ink

GUSN: 334255

Accession Number: 1984.496.3

Gropius Christmas Card

Painting of an owl on top of an hourglass in black and white over a background of blue, red, green, and gray. The years 1948 and 1949 are painted with white paint inside the sand of the hourglass. Handwritten inscription along the top edge in black ink.

Date: 1948-1949

Maker: Kepes, Juliet (Artist) Kepes, Gyorgy (Artist)

Material: paper (fiber product), paint (coating), ink

GUSN: 334256

Accession Number: 1984.496.4

Gropius Christmas Card

Painting of a bird on a black branch over a brown and blue background, set inside a folded piece of paper. Handwritten inscription in black ink along bottom edge of image.

Maker: Kepes, Juliet (Artist) Kepes, Gyorgy (Artist)

Material: paper (fiber product), paint (coating), ink

GUSN: 334257

Accession Number: 1984.496.5

Gropius Christmas Card

Painting of white birds over blue, green, black, and red background, mounted on gray paper, with a handwritten inscription in black ink in left and right borders.

Date: 1965-1966

Maker: Kepes, Juliet (Artist) Kepes, Gyorgy (Artist)

Material: paper (fiber product), paint (coating), ink

GUSN: 334258

Accession Number: 1984.496.7

Gropius Christmas Card

Painting of a white bird over a sea-like background affixed to a brown paper card. Inscription in white paint along lower edge of painting.

Maker: Kepes, Juliet (Artist) Kepes, Gyorgy (Artist)

Material: paper (fiber product), ink, paint (coating)

GUSN: 334259

Accession Number: 1984.496.8

Gropius Christmas Card

Drawing of a bird on a branch made from sand sprinkled over glue on delicate white paper. Handwritten inscription in black ink in lower right corner.

Maker: Kepes, Juliet (Artist) Kepes, Gyorgy (Artist)

Material: paper (fiber product), sand, ink

GUSN: 334260

Accession Number: 1984.496.9

Gropius Christmas Card

Painting of white birds over a stained glass-like background in black and other colors. Pencil inscription on back.

Date: 1958

Maker: Kepes, Gyorgy (Artist)

Material: paper (fiber product), paint (coating), graphite pencils

GUSN: 334261

Accession Number: 1984.496.10

Gropius Christmas Card

Drawing of a man wearing a keffiyeh alongside a handwritten inscription in Arabic in black ink.

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product), ink, colored pencils

GUSN: 334262

Accession Number: 1984.496.12

Gropius Christmas Card

Folded pop-up card of a black teapot over a gold background.

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 334263

Accession Number: 1984.496.13

Gropius Christmas Card

Folded card made from delicate, translucent off-white paper. A print of the word NOEL in black and brown ink on the same kind of paper is affixed to the interior, above the beginning of a handwritten letter in German.

Date: 1959

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product), ink, printing ink

GUSN: 334264

Accession Number: 1984.496.14

Gropius Christmas Card

A piece of white paper folded inside a piece of folded red paper. Japanese calligraphy in black ink on left side of white paper interior; printed inscription in English on right side of white paper interior.

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product), ink

GUSN: 334265

Accession Number: 1984.496.11

Gropius Christmas Card

Folded card on thin beige paper. Front is a collage with striped paper and a drawing of a bird with a worm inside a decorative frame. The bird and worm drawing is "hung" from the striped paper with thin wire and is movable. Interior of the card bears an inscription in red pencil.

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product), ink, colored pencils, wire, paint (coating)

GUSN: 334266

Accession Number: 1984.496.15

Gropius Christmas Card

Black-and-white photograph made into a postcard with Italian postage/postal markings. Photograph has been edited to have a handwritten inscription in white with a greeting and the artist's initials.

Date: 1949

Maker: unknown

Material: photographic paper, ink, postage stamps

GUSN: 334267

Accession Number: 1984.496.16

Gropius Christmas Card

Color print in black, red, green, and yellow folded in half to make a greeting card. Handwritten inscriptions on front cover in green pencil. Handwritten inscriptions in interior in red pencil and black ink.

Maker: Chermayeff, Serge, 1900-1996 (Artist)

Material: paper (fiber product), printing ink, ink, colored pencils

GUSN: 334268

Accession Number: 1984.496.17

Itinerant Artist Scene

Watercolor on paper painting of an artist making a portrait of a boy in a kitchen setting with the family looking on. Framed.

Date: c. 1845

Maker: unknown

Material: watercolor (paint), paper (fiber product), colored pencils

GUSN: 334350

Accession Number: 2019.5.1

Painting "Mount Chocorua"

Oil on canvas painting of Mount Chocorua through a forest of trees. In original gilded frame.

Date: c. 1895

Maker: Hale, Ellen Day, 1855-1940 (Painter)

Material: oil paint (paint), canvas

GUSN: 334351

Accession Number: 2019.6.1

Gropius Christmas Card

Painting of a fish on white paper in black, blue, yellow, and purple, with swirls of blue, black, and orange. Japanese characters in red in the bottom left corner.

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product), paint (coating)

GUSN: 334358

Accession Number: 1984.496.19

Gropius Christmas Card

Thin brown paper with designs in red ink or paint: a circular design in the center of the paper as well as vertical lines on the right half of the page with three asian characters, possible Chinese. Printed and handwritten inscriptions in top and bottom right corners in black ink.

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product), ink

GUSN: 334359

Accession Number: 1984.496.27

Gropius Christmas Card

Black and red printed designs on thin brown paper with handwritten inscriptions in black ink.

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product), ink

GUSN: 334360

Accession Number: 1984.496.26

Gropius Christmas Card

Japanese calligraphy in black and red ink on thin white paper.

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product), ink

GUSN: 334361

Accession Number: 1984.496.20

Gropius Christmas Card

Thin, translucent white paper folded in half to make a card. Front bears a printed image (possibly woodblock or linoleum) of a sheep with words running along the bottom border. Interior of the card bears a handwritten inscription.

Maker: Feininger, T. Lux, 1910-2011 (Artist)

Material: paper (fiber product), ink

GUSN: 334362

Accession Number: 1984.496.21

Gropius Christmas Card

Greeting card made of thin, translucent white paper with the left third folded in. Japanese calligraphy in red and a printed name on the folded left third; printed inscription and a signature in the lower right corner of the right side.

Date: 1962-1963

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product), ink

GUSN: 334363

Accession Number: 1984.496.23

Gropius Christmas Card

Design and season's greetings printed in black and red-orange ink on thin, translucent, speckled white paper.

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product), ink

GUSN: 334364

Accession Number: 1984.496.25

Gropius Christmas Card

Printed design in black ink on light blue, translucent paper with printed inscription along lower edge and artist's signature in pencil.

Maker: Kranz, Kurt, 1910- (Artist)

Material: paper (fiber product), ink, graphite pencils

GUSN: 334365

Accession Number: 1984.496.28

Gropius Christmas Card

Translucent, speckled off-white paper with the top two-thirds folded over and printed with a red design. Handwritten inscriptions on the interior in black and blue ink. Twisted strands of red and blue thread are threaded through two holes in the fold of the card.

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product), ink, thread

GUSN: 334366

Accession Number: 1984.496.24

Gropius Christmas Card

Greeting card produced by the Metropolitan Museum of Art with the image of a work of art with red and green conical shapes. A very happy/new year to you/and Ise. [illegible inscription]/Moncha

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product), ink

GUSN: 334367

Accession Number: 1984.496.158

Gropius Christmas Card

Postcard with a work of art on the front (Tänzer or Dancer by Oskar Schlemmer) and a handwritten inscription on the back with German postage.

Date: 1956

Maker: Schlemmer, Helena Tutein, 1889-1987 (Artist)

Material: paper (fiber product), ink

GUSN: 334368

Accession Number: 1984.496.165

Gropius Christmas Card

Postcard printed with a work of art depicting an Italian piazza on the front. Handwritten message on the back with American postage. Postmarked December 24, 1957.

Date: 1957

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product), ink

GUSN: 334369

Accession Number: 1984.496.157

Gropius Christmas Card

Greeting card produced by the Metropolitan Museum of Art depcting an angel in yellow and orange in the Pennsylvania German style. Interior bears a handwritten inscription; back bears description of the work of art featured on the card.

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product), ink

GUSN: 334370

Accession Number: 1984.496.161

Gropius Christmas Card

Greeting card printed on the front with a stylized print in black and white. Handwritten inscription in the interior and printed text on the back.

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product), ink

GUSN: 334371

Accession Number: 1984.496.160

Gropius Christmas Card

Postcard printed with a work of art depicting the Virgin and child. Handwritten message in blue ink in on the back of the postcard with German postage.

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product), ink

GUSN: 334372

Accession Number: 1984.496.162

Gropius Christmas Card

Postcard with a work of art printed on the front and handwritten and printed inscriptions on the back.

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product), ink

GUSN: 334373

Accession Number: 1984.496.163

Gropius Christmas Card

Postcard produced by the Museum of Modern Art. Printed with a photograph of a person playing a pipe on the front and handwritten and printed inscriptions on the back. American postage; posted December 16, 1955.

Date: 1955

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product), ink

GUSN: 334374

Accession Number: 1984.496.166

Gropius Christmas Card

Postcard with design printed on the front in gray with text printed in red and sender's name handwritten in black ink. Printed description of the image and handwritten recipient's address on the back with German postage. Posted December 16, 1957.

Date: 1957

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product), ink

GUSN: 334375

Accession Number: 1984.496.159

Gropius Christmas Card

Card printed with black and white image of bamboo on front. Printed and handwritten inscriptions on back.

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product), ink

GUSN: 334376

Accession Number: 1984.496.164

Gropius Christmas Card

Postcard with a printed photograph of a sculpture of stacked animals on the front. Handwritten message in blue ink and printed inscription on back with German postage.

Date: 1959

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product), ink

GUSN: 334377

Accession Number: 1984.496.169

Gropius Christmas Card

Greeting card with an image of an angel-like figure in white and gray with a yellow star printed on a blue background on the front. Printed and handwritten inscriptions in the interior and printed inscription on the back.

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product), ink

GUSN: 334378

Accession Number: 1984.496.172

Gropius Christmas Card

Postcard with design in blues and red printed on front. Printed and handwritten inscriptions in interior and printed inscription on back.

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product), ink

GUSN: 334380

Accession Number: 1984.496.168

Spoon and Stand

This large serving spoon (A) consists of a mussel shell lashed with sinew to a smoothed stick handle. It rests on a custom stand (B) made from the cross-sectional slice of a tree and a deer antler.

Date: 2018

Maker: Spears, Robin, Jr., 1962-, Narragansett Nation (Artist)

Material: shell (animal material), sinew, wood (plant material), antler

GUSN: 334401

Accession Number: 2018.27.6AB

Basket

This round basket is woven with ash splints of various widths in a checkerboard pattern. The exterior is decorated with purple pigment in repeating dots and undulating lines.

Date: 2018

Maker: Spears, Lorén, 1966-, Narragansett Nation (Artist)

Material: ash (wood), pigment

GUSN: 334402

Accession Number: 2018.27.7

Corn Husk Doll

This doll is constructed from cornhusks and dyed twine. She wears a glass bead necklace and fingertwined headband and carries a fingertwined sash.

Date: 2018

Maker: Spears, Lorén, 1966-, Narragansett Nation

Material: cornhusk dolls, twine, twining, glass (material), beads (pierced objects), synthetic fiber

GUSN: 334403

Accession Number: 2018.27.8

Pair of Moccasins

Each moccasin in this pair is constructed from hand-sewn deerhide. The turned cuffs are painted with flowering vines in shades of red, yellow, green, blue, and orange highlighted with gold-colored metal studs. Made for an adult.

Date: 2018

Maker: LaRose, Silvermoon, 1980-, Narragansett Nation (Artist)

Material: deerskin, pigment, metal, studs (bosses)

GUSN: 334404

Accession Number: 2018.27.9AB

Pair of moccasins

Each moccasin in this pair is made from hand-sewn tanned deerhide. The turned cuffs are embellished with red cotton ribbon stitched to the outer edges and a repeating traditional design in black pigment. Made for a child.

Date: ca. 2018

Maker: LaRose, Silvermoon, 1980-, Narragansett Nation (Artist)

Material: deerskin, pigment, cotton (textile)

GUSN: 334405

Accession Number: 2018.27.10AB

Cloth Fragment

Brown ground with abstract and floral print.

Maker: unknown

Material: cotton (textile)

GUSN: 334472

Accession Number: 1917.1125

Gropius Christmas Card

Christmas card made from two layers of delicate white paper. The outer layer (cover) is printed with red, blue, yellow, and gray fish. Handwritten inscription inside.

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product), ink

GUSN: 334755

Accession Number: 1984.496.79

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