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Gothic cathedrals, guns, and the details that matter.
By Al Farrow, Jane Williams, and Céline Chrétien
Given the striking visual similarity of Fog over San Quentin State Prison, San Quentin, California to nineteenth-century American landscapes, viewers may be surprised to learn that the painting was created in the twenty-first century.
By Emma Acker
Stela with Queen Ix Mutal Ahaw (detail), 761 AD. Mexico or Guatemala, southern lowlands. Limestone, 92 x 45 x 3 in. (233.7 x 114.3 x 7.6 cm). Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Gift of Mrs. Paul L. Wattis, 1999.42
Claude Monet, Water Lilies, ca. 1914-1917. Oil on canvas, 65 3/8 x 56 in. Museum purchase, Mildred Anna Williams Collection, 1973.3
