introduction BEGINNINGS: THE PHOEBE HEARST ERA (1902-1920) THE PHOEBE HEARST COLLECTIONS GUATEMALA NATIVE CALIFORNIA ALASKAN ESKIMO PHILIPPINES ANCIENT NORTH AMERICA ANCIENT PERU ANCIENT egypt ANCIENT MEDITERRANEAN 01. “Temple of Castor and Pollux,” Girgenti, Sicily 02. Female head, limestone 03. Equestrian figurine, terracotta 04. Drinking cup (skyphos), red-figure ceramic 05. Stemmed goblet, black-figure ceramic 06. Pot stand, bucchero terracotta 07. Bottle, glass 08. Mosaic fragment, scene with soldiers 09. Head of a goddess or votary, terracotta 10. Head of a young woman, marble 11. Head of a one-eyed man, sarcophagus fragment, marble 12. Statue of Herakles, marble TRANSITION (1920-1945) EXPANSION (1945-1960) CULMINATION (1960-1980) RECENT YEARS (1980-2001) RECENT ACQUISITIONS “Curator’s Choice” Drinking cup (skyphos), red-figure ceramic Attributed to Polygnotos (the Lewis Painter). Italy, Chiusi (ancient Clusium); Greece, Athens (att.); Attic, ca. 460 B.C. Collected by Phoebe A. Hearst. 8–4581 “Greek vases are exciting because the painted pictures on them are a direct and vivid record of social attitudes and cultural ideas. This cup shows young men training in music and athletics with their instructors. The lyre held by one youth is a practice instrument (smaller and simpler than the kithara, which gives us the name guitar). The instructor offers a strigil, a scraper used by athletes to clean their bodies (of preparatory oil and accumulated dirt) after physical exercise; perhaps encouraging him to begin athletic training.” Crawford Greenewalt (Co-Curator of Greek and Roman Archaeology).