Excited to collaborate with the Whitney Museum of American of Art on today’s typology :  a collection of hand studies by Edward Hopper. An exclusive look into the Hopper Drawing exhibition opening to the general public tomorrow at the Whitney. If you’re a member you are able to enjoy it today!

These sketches plus dozens of other works by Hopper, many of which have never before been exhibited or researched,  will be on view May 23-October 6, 2013. An incredible opportunity to look into Hopper’s creative process.

Hopper works © Heirs of Josephine N. Hopper, licensed by the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; digital images courtesy of the Whitney.

Typology of powder flasks, 1750-1800. Caucasus, Russia.  V&A Museum collection.

Female figurines. Syria. Bronze age. Ashmolean museum collection.

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Diana Zlatanovski is a perfectionist — in the wonderful way that an anthropologist, photographer and museologist should be. She works with cultural artifacts at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and has immersed herself in the significance of collections for a decade.

That time spent studying the intricacy of groups has inspired her photo series, The Typology: beautiful, highly detailed photographs of various collections — both the individual objects and the collections as a whole. (And she has appropriately dubbed herself The Typologist.)

“There are many so fascinating objects in the world, some things we see everyday and might not even notice,” she says. “However, if you bring enough of them together, they start to tell a story and grab your attention.”

One Of These Shells Is Not Like The Others

Photo Credit: Diana Zlatanovski 

Typology of chairs. Collections of: Indianapolis Museum of Art, Dallas Museum of Art, and the Yale University Art Gallery. Compiled via the Digital Public Library of America.

Vessels, 4-6th century BC. The Metropolitan Museum collection.

Crooked knives. Native American: Micmac and Penobscot. Hudson Museum Native American Collection.

Painted rawhide playing cards, Apache. Cowan’s.

Moccasins. Collection of the UBC Museum of Anthropology.

Nestuke masks, Japan, Meiji period 1868-1912. Kimura Ryūmin.
LACMA collection.

Crotals (rattles), Ireland, 950-750 BC, British Museum collection

(Source: ancientpeoples)

Typology of quilts. Michigan State University Museum collection.

Furniture hardware, 1820-1830, England or France. Henry Kellam Hancock. Metropolitan Museum collection.

Peruvian Spindle collection. Morris De Camp Crawford. Anthropological papers of the American Museum of Natural History, Volume 12.

Ship figurehead typology. Peabody Essex Museum collection. Photo by Diana Zlatanovski.