Halloween is just around the corner and it has us seeing haunting references in works at the DMA and treats throughout the Museum’s galleries. Tell us which works cause you to have a hair-raising Museum visit.
Mask: The Bad Spirit of the Mountain, Yup’ik, Alaska, United States, late 19th century, wood, paint, and feathers, Dallas Museum of Art, gift of Elizabeth H. Penn
Cornelis Saftleven, College of Animals, 1655, oil on canvas, Dallas Museum of Art, The Karl and Esther Hoblitzelle Collection, gift of the Hoblitzelle Foundation
Adolf Hiremy-Hirschl, Seaside Cemetery (Seefriedhof), 1897, oil on canvas, Dallas Museum of Art, gift of J.E.R. Chilton
Emma-O, Momoyama period, Japan, late 16th-early 17th century, Wood, lacquer, gold gilt, and glass, Dallas Museum of Art, Wendover Fund in memory of Alfred and Juanita Bromberg and the Cecil and Ida Green Acquisition FundStephen Lapthisophon’s studio, Dallas, Texas, 2013
Ornament in the form of a feline face, Moche, Early Intermediate period, Moche Phase II-III, c. A.D. 100-450, gilded copper, shell, and turquoise, Dallas Museum of Art, The Nora and John Wise Collection, bequest of John Wise, 1983