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The First Time, the Heart (First Pulse, 1854; First Flatline, 1870)
The First Time, the Heart (First Pulse, 1854; First Flatline, 1870)

The First Time, the Heart (First Pulse, 1854; First Flatline, 1870)

Artist (American, born 1972)
Date2017
Period21st century
MediumPhotolithographs with transparent base ink, hand-flamed and sooted paper; image brushed with lithotine and lifted from soot, fused in a mild solution of shellac and denatured alcohol
DimensionsImage size (Each): 5 x 7 inches
Object size (Each): 11 1/2 x 14 1/4 inches
Credit LinePurchase with funds provided by the G. Crossan Seybolt ’77 Art Acquisition Fund
Object number2023.010
Curatorial DepartmentModern & Contemporary Art
Integration Second grade at Glenn school, Nashville, Tennessee. This was one of the first schools to put through integration. While at first there was some violence, desegregation was quickly accepted by both parents and pupils. The children now both play and study together and have forgotten the days when this was considered impossible.
Integration
Second grade at Glenn school, Nashville, Tennessee. This was one of the first schools to put through integration. While at first there was some violence, desegregation was quickly accepted by both parents and pupils. The children now both play and study together and have forgotten the days when this was considered impossible.
Henri Cartier-Bresson
c. 1960
Object number: 2017.090
Bead
Bead
Anonymous (Unknown)
Object number: 2009.014.14
L'insurrection contre les maris est proclamée le plus saint des devoir! [ Insurrection against husbands is proclaimed as being the first and holiest duty in life!] from the series Les Femmes Socialistes, No.1, published in Le Charivari
L'insurrection contre les maris est proclamée le plus saint des devoir! [ Insurrection against husbands is proclaimed as being the first and holiest duty in life!]
from the series Les Femmes Socialistes, No.1, published in Le Charivari
Honoré Daumier
1849, April 20
Object number: 2014.178
La première leçon de natation. [The first swimming lesson.] from the series Les Papas, number 16, published in Le Charivari
La première leçon de natation. [The first swimming lesson.]
from the series Les Papas, number 16, published in Le Charivari
Honoré Daumier
published September 10, 1847
Object number: 2014.193
Image Not Available for First Snow
First Snow
Gordon Hope Grant
Object number: 1976.061
Image Not Available for The First Sketch for Olin Robison's Portrait and Reduced Framing of Initial Composition for Olin Robison's Portrait
The First Sketch for Olin Robison's Portrait and Reduced Framing of Initial Composition for Olin Robison's Portrait
Jack Beal
1989
Object number: 1989.014
The First Trial: Rakhsh and the Lion from Shahnameh: The Epic of the Persian Kings
The First Trial: Rakhsh and the Lion from Shahnameh: The Epic of the Persian Kings
Hamid Rahmanian
2015
Object number: 2015.240
Oxford, Mississippi from the series Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement Waiting for James Meredith, the first African American to register at the University of Mississippi.
Oxford, Mississippi from the series Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement
Waiting for James Meredith, the first African American to register at the University of Mississippi.
Danny Lyon
1962
Object number: 2001.010.10
Image Not Available for a. First Image for J......f. Sixth Image for J.
a. First Image for J......f. Sixth Image for J.
Bernard Cohen
1976
Object number: 1981.082.1-.6
The Mississippi Freedom Democratic party was created in 1964 as an alternative to the regular state parties, from which blacks were excluded. Eighty thousand people joined. Here people vote in Mississippi, most for the first time in their lives from the series Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement
The Mississippi Freedom Democratic party was created in 1964 as an alternative to the regular state parties, from which blacks were excluded. Eighty thousand people joined. Here people vote in Mississippi, most for the first time in their lives from the series Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement
Danny Lyon
1964, printed later
Object number: 2015.147
First Day of Vacation
First Day of Vacation
John S. Sheldon
2001
Object number: 2005.001
Image Not Available for the first word of verse arises (from The Rilke Suite)
the first word of verse arises (from The Rilke Suite)
Ben Shahn
1968
Object number: 1991.004.22