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Artworks
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Clothespin Ladies: Clothespin figure
Alexander Calder
Wooden clothespins, paint, pipecleaners, metal, paper, wire, thread, wood, cloth, and string · 1926
Whitney Museum of American Art
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Charioteer: White Horses
Alexander Calder
Wire, painted wood, metal, string, leather, rubber and cloth · 1926
Whitney Museum of American Art
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Lion Tamer, Lion and Cage
Alexander Calder
Wire, yarn, cloth, buttons, painted metal, wood, metal, leather and string · 1926
Whitney Museum of American Art
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Calder's Circus
Alexander Calder
Wire, wood, metal, cloth, yarn, paper, cardboard, leather, string, rubber tubing, corks, buttons, rhinestones, pipe cleaners, and bottle caps · 1926
Whitney Museum of American Art
Cow
Alexander Calder
Wire, wood, and string · 1926
Museum of Modern Art
Royal Cap (Orikogbofo)
Yoruba
Glass, cloth, and string · 1925
Art Institute of Chicago
Untitled (Coat Construction)
James Castle
Paper, soot, spit, and string · 1925
Museum of Modern Art
L’Enigme d’Isidore Ducasse
Man Ray
Sewing machine, wool and string · 1920
Tate
Untitled (Match-Woman I)
Francis Picabia
Oil on canvas with wooden matchsticks, hairpins, coins, leather hair rollers, and string · 1920
Art Institute of Chicago
Untitled “Window Large Construction”
James Castle
Soot mixed with saliva, string, and ribbon on brown and cream found paperboard, pieced · 1920
Art Institute of Chicago
Plate 2, from 1917 Packard Twin-Six Calendar
Gustave Baumann
Color woodcuts with letterpress in brown ink on cream card, punched and bound with string at top edge · 1917
Art Institute of Chicago
Advertising brochure: An Ancient Medium in a Modern Rendering
Gustave Baumann
Woodcuts with text in reddish-brown and black ink, on cream Japanese paper, folded into a booklet and bound with red string · 1914
Art Institute of Chicago
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Guitar
Pablo Picasso
Paperboard, paper, thread, string, twine, and coated wire · 1912
Museum of Modern Art
Royal Cap (Orikogbofo)
Yoruba
Glass, cloth, and string · 1901
Art Institute of Chicago
Royal Trousers
Yoruba
Glass beads, cloth, and string · 1900
Art Institute of Chicago
Tunic
Yoruba
Glass beads, cloth, and string · 1900
Art Institute of Chicago
Twin Commemorative Figure (Ere Ibeji)
Yoruba
Wood, glass beads, cowrie shells, pigment, and string · 1900
Art Institute of Chicago
Horse Head (Koredugaso)
Bamana
Wood, metal, and string · 1900
Art Institute of Chicago
Twin Commemorative Figure (Ere Ibeji)
Yoruba
Wood, glass beads, pigment, and string · 1900
Art Institute of Chicago
Hat
Yoruba
Glass beads, cloth, and string · 1900
Art Institute of Chicago
Untitled (Leaves and string)
Yamaguchi Gen
Color woodblock print with leaves and string · 1900
Art Institute of Chicago
Untitled (Leaves and string)
Yamaguchi Gen
Color woodblock print with leaves and string · 1900
Art Institute of Chicago
The Antikamnia Calendar, May and June, 1899: "Ein Stein!"
Louis Crusius, American
Chromolithograph on paper with string binding · 1898
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
The Antikamnia Calendar, July and August, 1899: The Doctor's Enemy
Louis Crusius, American
Chromolithograph on paper with string binding · 1898
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum