Tuesday, February 27, 2024

Visual Relics (1909-1912)

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Dodo with a Feather Hat
1911
oil on canvas
Milwaukee Art Museum

Fernand Léger
Table and Fruit
1909
oil on canvas
Minneapolis Institute of Art

Fernand Léger
Male Figure
1909
drawing
Milwaukee Art Museum

Alphonse Legros
Memories of Fontainebleau in the Rain
ca. 1910
drypoint
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Édouard Vuillard
Woman Sewing
ca. 1910
drawing
Musée d'Unterlinden, Colmar

Édouard Vuillard
Woman sitting at a Table
ca. 1910
oil on canvas
Milwaukee Art Museum

Gabriele Münter
Boating
1910
oil on canvas
Milwaukee Art Museum

Lovis Corinth
Judith and Holofernes
1910
lithograph
Minneapolis Institute of Art

Käthe Kollwitz
Self Portrait 
1910
etching
Milwaukee Art Museum

George Luks
The Wedding Cake
ca. 1910
oil on canvas
Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia

George Luks
Holiday on the Hudson
ca. 1912
oil on canvas
Cleveland Museum of Art

August Macke
Geraniums before Blue Mountain
1911
oil on canvas
Milwaukee Art Museum

Albert Bloch
Boy with Orange
1911
oil on canvas
Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Dance Hall, Bellevue
ca. 1909
oil on canvas
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Wassily Kandinsky
Autumn II
1912
oil on canvas
Phillips Collection, Washington DC

As I fortuned to take my voyage into Thessaly, about certaine affaires which I had to doe (for there myne auncestry by my mothers side inhabiteth, descended of the line of that most excellent person Plutarch, and of Sextus the Philosopher his Nephew, which is to us a great honour) and after that by much travell and great paine I had passed over the high mountaines and slipperie vallies, and had ridden through the cloggy fallowed fields; perceiving that my horse did waxe somwhat slow, and to the intent likewise I might repose and strengthen my self (being weary with riding) I lighted off my horse, and wiping away the sweat from every part of his body, I unbridled him, and walked him softly in my hand, to the end he might pisse, and ease himselfe of his wearinesse and travell: and while hee went grazing freshly in the field (casting his head sometimes aside, as a token of rejoycing and gladnesse) I perceived a little before me two companions riding, and so I overtaking them made the third.

– Apuleius, The Golden Ass, translated by William Adlington (1566)