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Detail from Transformations. Photo: Paul Litherland

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Installation view of Camille Turner's "Dream Room" (2022) showing iceberg like structures to sit on with a dreamy interstellar light display in reds, greens, blues and purples.

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Interactive map in the Bader Gallery for Leiden circa 1630: Rembrandt Emerges.

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Wendy Simon

Pear Around

2001

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Gain interdisciplinary insights into histories embodied by artworks from Agnes’s collection, featuring polyvocal perspectives and dynamic features that encourage close-looking.

A close up of two women. One woman wearing a swimsuit faces away from us, arm extended to embrace the other womane who is nude leaning on a cane.

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Evergon - Margaret & Jessie (Florida)

Installation view of Luis Jacob, Anarchist Free School Minutes, 1999, (2002) showing a black hand chair, a low table, a red milk crate, and pages of the manifesto framed on the wall in the corner of a room.

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Luis Jacob - Anarchist Free School Minutes, 1999

A closeup of an etching of a lighthouse outside viewed through the grid lines of a window frame.

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Franc van Oort - Lighthouse Window

A detail of a cyanotype of five pears.

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Wendy Simon - Pear Around

A close up of two women. One woman wearing a swimsuit faces away from us, arm extended to embrace the other womane who is nude leaning on a cane.

Collection Highlight

Evergon - Margaret & Jessie (Florida)

Installation view of Luis Jacob, Anarchist Free School Minutes, 1999, (2002) showing a black hand chair, a low table, a red milk crate, and pages of the manifesto framed on the wall in the corner of a room.

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Luis Jacob - Anarchist Free School Minutes, 1999

Isaac is depicted as a nude young man, bound to rock and wood on the ground. Abraham kneels beside him, wearing a scarlet robe and drawing his knife.

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Nicolaes Maes - Abraham’s Sacrifice

Close-up of a wooden figure's bearded face and chest, showing breast-like mounds.

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- Unnamed Genderfluid Figure

A black-and-white print of Mary seated with St Elizabeth, she breastfeeds her son Jesus, while she hands a bobble to St John the Baptist and Joseph works behind them.

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Elisabetta Sirani - The Holy Family with Saints Elizabeth and John the Baptist

around 1650-1660

Horatio Walker, Turning the Harrow – Early Morning, 1898, oil on canvas. Purchase, Chancellor Richardson Memorial Fund and the Gallery Association, 1994 (37-008)

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Horatio Walker - Turning the Harrow – Early Morning

A Scholar in His Study

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Godfrey Kneller - A Scholar in His Study

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