Monday, February 26, 2024

Visual Relics (1903-1909)

Pierre Bonnard
Femme au Chapeau Rouge
1903
oil on canvas
Milwaukee Art Museum

Käthe Kollwitz
Working-Class Woman in Blue Shawl
1903
lithograph
Milwaukee Art Museum

Paul Klee
Komiker
1904
etching
Minneapolis Institute of Art

John Sloan
Turning Out the Light
1905
etching
Phillips Collection, Washington DC

Robert Demachy
Behind the Scenes
1904
halftone print
Minneapolis Institute of Art

George Luks
Bleecker and Carmine Streets, New York
ca. 1905
oil on canvas
Milwaukee Art Museum

John Frederick Peto
Reminiscences of 1865
1904
oil on canvas
Minneapolis Institute of Art

John Frederick Peto
The Marked Passage
1907
oil on board
Princeton University Art Museum

Paula Modersohn-Becker
Two Girls in White and Blue Dresses
1906
oil on board
Milwaukee Art Museum

Georges Braque
Seated Nude
1906
oil on canvas
Milwaukee Art Museum

George Bellows
Society Ball
ca. 1907
drawing
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

William Glackens
The Shoppers
ca. 1907-1908
oil on canvas
Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia

Arthur Bowen Davies
Across the Harbor
1908
oil on canvas
Indianapolis Museum of Art

Rockwell Kent
Burial of a Young Man
ca. 1908
oil on canvas
Phillips Collection, Washington DC

Bertold Löffler
Kunstschau Wien 1908
1908
lithograph (poster)
Minneapolis Institute of Art

Gabriele Münter
Yellow Still Life
1909
oil on cardboard
Milwaukee Art Museum

Meanwhile Olympus' king calls out to Juno
as from a golden cloud she scans the battle:
"Wife, how can this day end? What is there left
for you to do? You know, and say you know,
that, as a deity, Aeneas is owed
to heaven, that the fates will carry him
high as the stars. What is your plan? What is
the hope that keeps you lingering in these
chill clouds?"

– Jupiter reproaches Juno yet again, from Book XII of Virgil's Aeneid, translated by Allen Mandelbaum (1971)