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The Flatiron
The Flatiron is a famous early 1900s photograph of New York's Flatiron Building, made in versions by Alfred Stieglitz in 1903 and Edward Steichen in 1904.
The Flower Carrier
The Flower Carrier (Cargador de Flores) is a 1935 painting by the Mexican artist Diego Rivera, showing a kneeling peasant man straining under an oversized basket of flowers helped by a woman.
The Fly (Archie Comics)
The Fly (Archie Comics) is a 1959 superhero, alias Tommy Troy, created by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby from Simon's unpublished Silver Spider; a ring-wielding Fly People-powered hero and Mighty Crusaders founding member, revived by Red Circle in 1983.
The Fog Warning
The Fog Warning is an 1885 oil painting by Winslow Homer depicting a lone fisherman in a dory pausing to gauge an approaching fog bank, held by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
The Foolish Old Man Removes the Mountains
The Foolish Old Man Removes the Mountains (愚公移山, Yugong Yishan) is a monumental 1940 ink-and-color painting by Xu Beihong, depicting the Liezi fable of Yugong, who vows to level the mountains blocking his home.
The Four Sleepers
The Four Sleepers (四睡图, Shisui zu) is a Chan Buddhist painting theme showing the monk Fenggan, poet Hanshan, monk Shide, and a tiger asleep together.
The Garden of Earthly Delights
The Garden of Earthly Delights is Hieronymus Bosch's triptych in oil on oak, dated 1490–1500, 205.5 × 384.9 cm open, in the Museo del Prado, showing Eden, a garden of delights, and Hell.
The Gates of Hell
The Gates of Hell (La Porte de l'Enfer) is Rodin's monumental 1880–1917 sculptural portal with over 200 figures from Dante's Inferno and Baudelaire, source of The Thinker and The Kiss, cast in bronze only posthumously.
The Ghost of Taira no Tomomori
The Ghost of Taira no Tomomori (平知盛の亡霊) is a recurring ukiyo-e print and drama subject: the drowned Taira commander rises from the sea to attack Yoshitsune's ship.
The Gita Govinda of Basohli
The Gita Govinda of Basohli is a dated 1730 series of Pahari miniature paintings illustrating Jayadeva's twelfth-century Sanskrit lyric poem about Krishna and Radha, in the Basohli style.
The Gleaners
The Gleaners (Des glaneuses) is Jean-François Millet's 1857 oil painting of three peasant women gathering leftover wheat, shown at the 1857 Salon and held at the Musée d'Orsay, Paris (RF 592).
The Golden Age (comics)
The Golden Age (later JSA: The Golden Age) is a four-issue 1993–1994 DC Elseworlds miniseries by James Robinson and Paul Smith depicting the postwar Justice Society facing McCarthyism and a hidden conspiracy.
The Goldfinch (painting)
The Goldfinch (Het puttertje) is a 1654 oil-on-panel trompe l'oeil, 33.5 x 22.8 cm, by Carel Fabritius, showing a chained European goldfinch; in the Mauritshuis since 1896, it inspired Donna Tartt's Pulitzer-winning 2013 novel.
The Great Masturbator
The Great Masturbator (French Visage du Grand Masturbateur, Spanish El gran masturbador) is Salvador Dalí's 1929 autobiographical oil painting, 110 x 150 cm, showing a soft self-profile with a grasshopper at the mouth, made after Gala stayed with him and now in the Reina Sofía, Madrid.
The Great Wall of Los Angeles
The Great Wall of Los Angeles is a half-mile-long mural by Chicana artist Judith F. Baca on the Tujunga Wash channel, depicting California's ethnic history through the 1950s.
The Great Wave off Kanagawa
The Great Wave off Kanagawa (神奈川沖浪裏, Kanagawa-oki nami ura), also called Under the Wave off Kanagawa, is Katsushika Hokusai's c. 1830–32 color woodblock print from Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji, famous for its Prussian blue wave, three fish-delivery boats, and distant Mount Fuji.
The Gross Clinic
The Gross Clinic is an 1875 oil painting by American realist Thomas Eakins depicting surgeon Samuel D. Gross operating at Jefferson Medical College, considered among the greatest American paintings.
The Guler Bhagavata Purana of Manaku
The Guler Bhagavata Purana of Manaku, or Small Guler Bhagavata Purana, is an unfinished illustrated manuscript of the Bhagavata Purana painted by Manaku at Guler around 1740.
The Gumps
The Gumps was an American comic strip by Sidney Smith, running in the Chicago Tribune from February 12, 1917 to October 17, 1959. Pioneering continuity storytelling with Andy, Min, and Uncle Bim, it drove Tribune syndication, earned Smith a $1 million contract, and became the first comic strip adapted to radio in 1931.
The Hands Resist Him
The Hands Resist Him, the "haunted eBay painting," is a 1972 oil painting by Bill Stoneham showing a boy and a doll before a glass door with hands pressing through.
The Harlequin's Carnival
The Harlequin's Carnival (Carnaval d'Arlequin, El carnaval d'Arlequí) is a 1924–25 oil on canvas by Joan Miró, painted at 45 rue Blomet, Paris; 66 × 93 cm, owned by André Breton in 1926, bought by Buffalo's Albright gallery in 1940, now Buffalo AKG Art Museum.
The Hay Wain
The Hay Wain is John Constable's 1821 oil on canvas (130.2 × 185.4 cm, National Gallery NG1207), also titled Landscape: Noon, showing Willy Lott's house and a wagon at Flatford millpond, River Stour; sold in 1824 for £250 and awarded a Paris Salon gold medal.
The Heart of the Andes
The Heart of the Andes is an 1859 landscape painting by Frederic Edwin Church, showing an idealized Andean valley in Ecuador and held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
The History of Chinese Painting and the History of Modern Western Art Washed in a Washing Machine for Two Minutes
Huang Yong Ping's 1987 conceptual installation, also known in Chinese as 《中国绘画史》和《现代绘画简史》在洗衣机里搅拌了两分钟, in which Wang Bomin's History of Chinese Painting and Herbert Read's A Concise History of Modern Painting were washed together for two minutes; the pulp, recreated in 1993, belongs to the Walker Art Center.
The Horse in Motion
The Horse in Motion is a series of sequential photographs made by Eadweard Muybridge in 1878, proving that a galloping horse lifts all four hooves at once.
The Hunt of the Unicorn
The Hunt of the Unicorn is a celebrated series of Franco-Flemish tapestries depicting the hunt of a mythical unicorn, woven between 1495 and 1505 and held at The Cloisters in New York.
The Hunters in the Snow
The Hunters in the Snow (Jagers in de Sneeuw, 1565), an oil-on-oak panel by Pieter Bruegel the Elder in Vienna's Kunsthistorisches Museum, winter panel of the six-part Seasons cycle for Niclaes Jongelinck, first fully realized winter landscape.
The Icebergs
The Icebergs is an 1861 oil-on-canvas Arctic landscape by American painter Frederic Edwin Church, rediscovered in 1979 and held by the Dallas Museum of Art.
The Ideals of the East
The Ideals of the East (東洋の理想) is a 1903 book by Okakura Kakuzō, opening with "Asia is one," and tracing Japanese art from prehistory to the Meiji era.
The Immortal in Splashed Ink
The Immortal in Splashed Ink (潑墨仙人圖) is a Song dynasty album leaf in ink attributed to Liang Kai, showing a drunken, pot-bellied immortal rendered in wet ink washes.