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oil

585 works · 1427 to 1949 · aat:300015050

20 of 442 ids checked against the materials Wikidata records named a different concept (4.5%), read 2026-09-08

oil

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, The Art Institute of Chicago, Cleveland Museum of Art, National Gallery of Art, Yale Center for British Art and Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum548 as in Oil on canvas, oil on canvas, oil on fabric, Oil on panel and 47 moreread as oil paintAbe Garcia, 2026-09-07A cataloguer's "oil" in a medium sentence is short for oil paint. AAT's "oil" (300014254) is any greasy substance liquid at room temperature, which is not what "Oil on canvas" says. Measured against the materials Wikidata records for the same works, this one word accounted for 29 of the 45 disagreements that named a different concept.

oil paint

Rijksmuseum, The Art Institute of Chicago, Department of Paintings of the Louvre, Uffizi Gallery, Princeton University, Hermitage Museum, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY and Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum36 as in oil paint (paint), canvas, canvas, oil paint (paint), oil paint (paint), panel, oil paint, canvas and 7 more

oils

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY1 as in Brush and oils over black chalk on pink laid paperread as oil paintAbe Garcia, 2026-09-07The same word. AAT reads the plural as the same organic material, so the reading is the same.

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