saved.works

tag

Tag

Foreground Figures

Foreground Figures is a browsable saved.works tag spanning 26 works by 24 artists across 15 institutions.

26 works

8 leading artists

8 institutions

The Seven Gods of Good Fortune (shichifuku-jin) celebrate the New Year by Artist: Katsushika Hokusai

The Seven Gods of Good Fortune (shichifuku-jin) celebrate the New Year

Artist: Katsushika Hokusai · 1809 (year of the snake)

Yale University Art Gallery · Surimono, horizontal chū-ban; polychrome woodblock print with…

Fujieda, Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō (Fujieda, Tōkaidō gojūsan tsugi), detached page from The Fifty-Three Stations of the Tōkaidō: A Picture Book of Highway Bells (Tōkaidō gojūsan tsugi: Ehon ekiro no suzu) by Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎

Fujieda, Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō (Fujieda, Tōkaidō gojūsan tsugi), detached page from The Fifty-Three Stations of the Tōkaidō: A Picture Book of Highway Bells (Tōkaidō gojūsan tsugi: Ehon ekiro no suzu)

Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎 · c. 1808-1813

Arthur M. Sackler Museum · Detached page from a woodblock-printed book; ink…

Winter Landscape with a Coach and Travelers by a House by Jacob Cats

Winter Landscape with a Coach and Travelers by a House

Jacob Cats · 1786

Fogg Museum · Brown ink, gray wash, and black chalk on cream…

The Conquest of Tunisia by Artist (painter): `Ali Artist (painter): Naqqas Osman Author: Lokman Scribe: Ilyas Katib

The Conquest of Tunisia

Artist (painter): `Ali Artist (painter): Naqqas Osman Author: Lokman Scribe:…

Aga Khan Museum · Opaque watercolour, ink, and gold on paper

Image based on The Falling Mist Waterfall at Mount Kurokami in Shimotsuke Province (Shimotsuke Kurokamiyama Kirifuri no taki), from the series A Tour of Waterfalls in Various Provinces (Shokoku taki meguri) by Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎

Image based on The Falling Mist Waterfall at Mount Kurokami in Shimotsuke Province (Shimotsuke Kurokamiyama Kirifuri no taki), from the series A Tour of Waterfalls in Various Provinces (Shokoku taki meguri)

Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎

Arthur M. Sackler Museum · Prints

A Design for Illuminations to Celebrate the Birthday of King George III by Adam, Robert

A Design for Illuminations to Celebrate the Birthday of King George III

Adam, Robert · 1763

National Gallery of Art · watercolor over graphite heightened with white on…

George Brecht's Word Event (1961), performed by Emmett Williams and George Maciunas during Fluxus/Musik og Anti-Musik/det Instrumentale Teater, Nikolai Kirke, Copenhagen, November 23, 1962 by Emmett Williams, George Maciunas, George Brecht

George Brecht's Word Event (1961), performed by Emmett Williams and George Maciunas during Fluxus/Musik og Anti-Musik/det Instrumentale Teater, Nikolai Kirke, Copenhagen, November 23, 1962

Emmett Williams, George Maciunas, George Brecht · 1962

Museum of Modern Art · Gelatin silver print

Die Abenteuer des Ritters Theuerdank by Beck, Leonhard

Die Abenteuer des Ritters Theuerdank

Beck, Leonhard · ca. 1517

Victoria and Albert Museum · ink, paper, wood-cutting

Ni asi la distingue by Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes

Ni asi la distingue

Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes · 1797–98

Minneapolis Institute of Art · Etching and aquatint

Woodgatherers in a landscape by Rowlandson

Woodgatherers in a landscape

Rowlandson · n.d.

Princeton Digital PUL · 1 item ; sheet 28.8 x 34.7 cm.

Vue interieure de l'ile, prise dans les environs du jardin des plantes de la ville de St. Denis (Ile Bourbon) // [Interior view of the island, taken near the botanical garden of the city of St. Denis (Bourbon Isle)]. by Bichebois

Vue interieure de l'ile, prise dans les environs du jardin des plantes de la ville de St. Denis (Ile Bourbon) // [Interior view of the island, taken near the botanical garden of the city of St. Denis (Bourbon Isle)].

Bichebois · 1801

Princeton Digital PUL · 1 item ; sheet 36.2 x 54.3 cm.

An old ewe drest lamb fashion by Rowlandson

An old ewe drest lamb fashion

Rowlandson · 1810

Princeton Digital PUL · 1 item ; sheet 25.9 x 37.3 cm.

Shepherd with Girl in Landscape by Gino Severini

Shepherd with Girl in Landscape

Gino Severini · c. 1922

Minneapolis Institute of Art · Graphite on paper

North Easton, Massachusetts by William Morris Hunt

North Easton, Massachusetts

William Morris Hunt · 1877

Cleveland Museum of Art · charcoal; framing lines in charcoal

Landscape with Figures by Henri-Edmond Cross

Landscape with Figures

Henri-Edmond Cross · c. 1905

Museum of Modern Art · Watercolor on paper

Ed Henderson Suggests Sound Tracks for Photographs by John Baldessari

Ed Henderson Suggests Sound Tracks for Photographs

John Baldessari · 1974

Museum of Modern Art · Video (black and white, sound)

Birmingham Race Riot from X + X (Ten Works by Ten Painters) by Andy Warhol

Birmingham Race Riot from X + X (Ten Works by Ten Painters)

Andy Warhol · 1964

Museum of Modern Art · One from a portfolio of ten screenprints

A Big Headache for Li Hongzhang, from the Series “Long Live Japan! One Hundred Selections, One Hundred Laughs” by Kobayashi Kiyochika, Japanese

A Big Headache for Li Hongzhang, from the Series “Long Live Japan! One Hundred Selections, One Hundred Laughs”

Kobayashi Kiyochika, Japanese · 1894

Saint Louis Art Museum · Color woodblock print

The Traitor by Aldemir Martins

The Traitor

Aldemir Martins · 1953

Museum of Modern Art · Ink on paper

The city treasury by Nast

The city treasury

Nast · 1871

Princeton Digital PUL · 1 item ; print 22.3 x 35.2 cm.…

The Oxford Almanack [: Architectural drawings presented to Henry VIII]. by Vertue

The Oxford Almanack [: Architectural drawings presented to Henry VIII].

Vertue · 1748

Princeton Digital PUL · 1 item

Fifteen Cuttings from Histoire de Charles Martel by Loyset Liédet; Pol Fruit

Fifteen Cuttings from Histoire de Charles Martel

Loyset Liédet; Pol Fruit · written 1463–1465; illuminated 1467–1472

J. Paul Getty Museum · Tempera colors, gold leaf, gold paint, and…

Autumn. by Walker

Autumn.

Walker · 1786

Princeton Digital PUL · 1 item

painting, 103RD COAST BATTERY by Tinning, Captain George Campbell

painting, 103RD COAST BATTERY

Tinning, Captain George Campbell · 1943/08/24

Canadian War Museum · watercolour; not applicable

Apelles Painting the Portrait of Campaspe by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

Apelles Painting the Portrait of Campaspe

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · 1721

Montreal Museum of Fine Arts · Adaline Van Horne Bequest, inv. 1945.929

Camp scene from photograph by Charles Magnus & Company

Camp scene from photograph

Charles Magnus & Company · ca. 1861-1865

New York Historical · Wood engraving