COLLECTION NAME:
Visual Resources Teaching Collection
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Visual Resources Teaching Collection
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Image Record ID:
aahi0007919
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Work Title (display):
Tropical Landscape-An American Indian Struggling with a Gorilla
Image Title:
full view
Work Dates (display):
1910
Work Dates type:
creation
Image Date (display):
2011-02-16
Work Creator (display):
Henri Rousseau (French painter, 1844-1910)
Work Creator gender:
male
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male
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false
Work Creator notes (display):
French painter, known as le Douanier (customs officer) in reference to his regular employment, as he was not a trained artist. He was encouraged by professional artists in the 1880 to exhibit his work in the annual Salons, and later his work was admired by Picasso and the Surrealists. He is best known for his "primitive" jungle scenes. French artist. (ULAN)
Work Style Period:
Post-Impressionist
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Post-Impressionist
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false
Work Style Period:
20th century
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20th century
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Work Subject:
fantasy (imagination)
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fantasy (imagination)
Work Subject
false
Work Subject:
Indigenous peoples
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Indigenous peoples
Work Subject
false
Work Subject:
ethnicity
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ethnicity
Work Subject
false
Work Subject:
culture
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culture
Work Subject
false
Work Subject:
violence
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violence
Work Subject
false
Work Subject:
colonialism
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colonialism
Work Subject
false
Work Subject:
identity
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identity
Work Subject
false
Work Subject:
exoticism
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exoticism
Work Subject
false
Work Subject:
Orientalism
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Orientalism
Work Subject
false
Work Subject:
landscapes (representations)
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landscapes (representations)
Work Subject
false
Work Subject:
race (concept)
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race (concept)
Work Subject
false
Work Subject:
animals
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animals
Work Subject
false
Work Worktype:
paintings (visual works)
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paintings (visual works)
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Work Category (VRC classification):
paintings
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paintings
Work Category (VRC classification)
false
Work Material and Technique (display):
oil on canvas
Work Measurements (display):
113.6 cm (H) x 162.5 cm (W)
Work Location (Repository or Site) name:
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
Work Location (Repository or Site) role:
exhibition
Work Location (Geographic) name:
Richmond, Virginia
Image Source Reproduction citation:
Henri Rousseau: Jungles in Paris. Ed. Christopher Green and Frances Morris. New York: Abrams, 2006.
image_source_copy_from_print_name
Henri Rousseau: Jungles in Paris. Ed. Christopher Green and Frances Morris. New York: Abrams, 2006.
Image Source Reproduction citation
false
Image Source Reproduction refid:
0-8109-5699-3
Image Source Reproduction page number:
44
Image Source Reproduction plate-figure number:
35
Image Source Reproduction refid type:
ISBN
Image Rights (display):
© Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
Work Rights (display):
© Henri Rousseau
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Holding Institution:
University of Colorado at Boulder
Collection:
Art and Art History Visual Resources Collection
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