Artwork Selection for Wall Label and Catalogue Entry

In preparation for your Museum Wall Label and Catalogue Entry assignment, I’d like you to browse some online museum collectiions and select a specific work to write about. You must inform me of your selection and provide a link to its description and image on its museum website by 11:59pm this Thursday July 21st. To submit your selection, provide your selection by writing in the text box the identifying information in bullet points, including:

• full title of the work
• date/date range
• medium
• culture/location of origin
• and provide the link to its page on a museum website

Your selected artwork must be relevant to the material, geographic scope, and time periods of our course, which is pretty broad. This includes anything from the regions of the Middle East, Europe, Africa, South America, Mesoamerica, North America, and Oceania (including Australia), from the Stone Age through today.

Here is a list of relevant museums that offer virtual gallery tours, images of individual works within their collections, and/or museum wall label and catalogue information:

• San Diego Museum of Art (San Diego, CA)
• LACMA (Links to an external site.) (The Los Angeles County Museum of Art) (Los Angeles, CA)
• The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York City, NY)
• The British Museum (London, United Kingdom)
• American Museum of Natural History (Links to an external site.) (New York, NY)
• De Young Museum (Links to an external site.) (San Francisco, CA)
• The Louvre Museum (Links to an external site.) (Paris, France)

If you would like to examine a work from another museum collection, that’s great, please feel free to write to me directly in advance of submitting your selection! There are many many other options out there. This list is just to get you started!