Wednesday, April 8, 2026

Pacified

Ruth Orkin
Belgium
ca. 1960
gelatin silver print
Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Fredericton, New Brunswick


Georgia O'Keeffe
Poppies
1950
oil on canvas
Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin

François Anguier
Figure funéraire de Jacques de Souvré, chevalier de l'ordre de Malte et grand prieur de France
before 1667
terracotta modello for marble tomb fixture
Musée du Louvre

Anonymous French Artist
Nymph and Satyr
ca. 1820
drawing on envelope with notes for sculpture
Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York

Diane Arbus
Woman at a Counter Smoking, N.Y.C.
1963
gelatin silver print
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Georgia O'Keeffe
Spring
ca. 1922
oil on canvas
Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York

François Anguier
Figure of Fortitude
(tomb of Henri Ier d'Orléans, duc de Longueville)
ca. 1661-63
marble
Musée du Louvre

Anonymous French Artist
Ecce Homo
16th century
drawing
British Museum

Paul Graham
Cafe Assistants, Compass Cafe, Closterworth, Lincolnshire
1982
C-print
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Georgia O'Keeffe
The Cliff Chimneys
1938
oil on canvas
Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin

François Anguier
Head of Janus
ca. 1661-63
marble relief (tomb element)
Musée du Louvre

Anonymous French Artist
St Anne with the Virgin in a Bower (St Joachim at right)
15th century
drawing
British Museum

Bruce Davidson
Two Bar-Tenders at a Museum Opening
1969
gelatin silver print
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Georgia O'Keeffe
Black Spot no. 3
1919
oil on canvas
Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York

Michel Anguier
Hercules assisting Atlas to support the Earth
1668
terracotta modello
Musée du Louvre

Anonymous French Artist
Jupiter and Semele
ca. 1660
drawing
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

David Wojnarowicz
Arthur Rimbaud in New York (Diner)
1978
gelatin silver print
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Can I my reason to my faith compel,
And shall my sight and touch and taste rebel?
Superior faculties are set aside;
Shall their subservient organs be my guide?
Then let the moon usurp the rule of day,
And winking tapers show the sun his way;
For what my senses can themselves perceive
I need no revelation to believe.

– John Dryden, from Confessio Fidei (1682)