Crimson

Tiffany & Co. (New York)
Tile
ca. 1880-90
glass
Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia

Anonymous Makers
Wallpaper Sample - Moiré Design
ca. 1890
machine-printed paper
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Frank Hazenplug
The Chap-Book
1895
lithograph (poster)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Alfred J. Frueh
Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree as Cardinal Wolsey in Shakespeare's Henry VIII
1916
gouache and ink on board (print study)
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

Leon Polk Smith
Untitled
1955
oil on paper
Menil Collection, Houston

Irving Harper for Herman Miller Inc.
Marshmallow Sofa
1956
steel frame and wool upholstery
Milwaukee Art Museum

Harvey Berin
Evening Gown for Leatrice Fountain
1956
silk satin
National Museum of American History, Washington DC

Ilya Bolotowsky
Interlocking Reds
1970
screenprint
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Burhan Dogançay
Red and Black Composition no. 5
1974
acrylic on canvas
Guggenheim Museum, New York

Anonymous Photographer
Patty Hearst
1974
C-print
(as adapted for publication by Time magazine)
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

Edwin Lawson
Fashions 1899
1976
colored pencil on paper
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Francis Bacon
Study of the Human Body
from a Drawing by Ingres
1982-84
oil on canvas
(left panel of diptych)
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC

David Hockney
Red Celia
(from series, Moving Focus)
1984
lithograph
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Mieke Groot
Tall Red with Blue Rim
1994
blown glass
Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia

Liliana Porter
Red with Mirror
2000
C-print
Phoenix Art Museum

Lisa Liedgren
Tom and Nicole (December 24 1990 - August 8 2001)
2002-2003
oil on canvas
Tacoma Art Museum

Graham Kuo
Temple Letters 3
2004
screenprint
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

from Electra

[Electra observes Clytemnestra after the (false) report of Orestes' death]

Do not you mark how passionate, how wild

Distressed Lady she bewails her child?

That he is dead, and that he thus should die?

No: she unnat'rall laughs. Unhappy I!

I, who deare Brother, perish in thy fall,

While thou hast bury'd at thy Funerall,

My remnant of low hopes to see the day,

When thy just hand full vengeance should display,

A Fathers death, and Sisters wrongs to pay. 

Now where shall I my dolefull footsteps turn,

Who am all desolate, and twice forlorn?

Brotherlesse Orphan. Once more to their check

Whom I most hate, I must submit my neck,

My Fathers Headsmen serve. With me is't well?

But 'tis resolv'd, I will no longer dwell

In these curs'd walls, but ehre before this gate

Laying me down, will fade disconsolate,

And let them, if they take this ill within

Kill me, my slaughter were a courteous sinne,

To live is pain, the light I hate to spinne.

– Sophocles (496-406 BC), translated by Christopher Wase (1649)