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A painting can be out of copyright and thephotograph of it can still be protected.

Museums publish two different things about the same artwork: whether the work is in copyright, and whether their picture of it is. OpenPlate reads both, does the arithmetic on the published term, and shows you the sentence behind every point of the score.

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    178 ms. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Collection API (Open Access)

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    279 ms. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Open Access API

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Results for "Chicago - Where the West Begins"12 records

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Female figure by Ixtlán del Río artist(s), The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Female figure

Ixtlán del Río artist(s)

200 BCE–200 CE · Ceramic, slip

Cleared · Public Domain

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Male figure by Ixtlán del Río artist(s), The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Male figure

Ixtlán del Río artist(s)

200 BCE–200 CE · Ceramic, slip

Cleared · Public Domain

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Seated female figure by Nayarit artist(s), The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Seated female figure

Nayarit artist(s)

100–400 CE · Ceramic, slip

Cleared · Public Domain

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Seated male figure by Nayarit artist(s), The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Seated male figure

Nayarit artist(s)

100–400 CE · Ceramic, slip

Cleared · Public Domain

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'De Cascade van Galathea, aan de West-zyde van de Groote Tuin', in: Tooneel Der Voornaamste Nederlands Huizen, En Lust Hoven, Naar T Leven Afgebeeld by Carel Allard, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

'De Cascade van Galathea, aan de West-zyde van de Groote Tuin', in: Tooneel Der Voornaamste Nederlands Huizen, En Lust Hoven, Naar T Leven Afgebeeld

Carel Allard (d. 1709)

n.d. · Color engraving (à la poupée)

Cleared · Public Domain

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Shiva Carries the Corpse of Sati by an unrecorded maker, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Shiva Carries the Corpse of Sati

Unrecorded maker

ca. 1865–75 · Ink, opaque watercolor, and silver paint on paper

Cleared · Public Domain

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Sora Ngoni (Simbingo) by an unrecorded maker, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Sora Ngoni (Simbingo)

Unrecorded maker

19th century · Gourd, skin, wood, leather

Cleared · Public Domain

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No open reproduction

The institution withholds the image for this record, which is itself the answer: the picture on their page is not theirs to give away.

Lilac Clematis (Atragene Occidentalis)

Margaret Neilson Armstrong (d. 1944)

July 1909 · Watercolor and brown ink over graphite, with page design indicated in graphite, and details in ink

In copyright

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No open reproduction

The institution withholds the image for this record, which is itself the answer: the picture on their page is not theirs to give away.

Walter McGrail in "Where the North Begins" from Scenes from Movies Exhibit Cards series (W404)

Unrecorded maker

ca. 1923 · Commercial color photolithograph

In copyright

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No open reproduction

The institution withholds the image for this record, which is itself the answer: the picture on their page is not theirs to give away.

Chicago - Where the West Begins

Gerald Geerlings (d. 1998)

1932 · Etching

In copyright

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No open reproduction

The institution withholds the image for this record, which is itself the answer: the picture on their page is not theirs to give away.

Climax in Steel

Morris Gurrie (d. 1974)

1920s–30s · Gelatin silver print

In copyright

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No open reproduction

The institution withholds the image for this record, which is itself the answer: the picture on their page is not theirs to give away.

NSA-Tapped Fiber Optic Cable Landing Site, Keawaula, Hawaii, United States

Trevor Paglen (d. 9999)

2016 · Inkjet print; mixed media on inkjet print

In copyright

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