Thursday, February 29, 2024

Visual Relics (1917-1923)

Paul Nash
Mine Crater, Hill 60, Ypres Salient
1917
lithograph
Art Institute of Chicago

Howard Russell Butler
Earth as seen from the Moon
ca. 1920
oil on panel
Princeton University Art Museum

Lovis Corinth
Portrait of an Old Woman
1918
watercolor
Milwaukee Art Museum

Lyubov Popova
Painterly Architectonic
1918
oil on canvas
Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid

Pablo Picasso
Still Life on a Pedestal-Table
in Front of a Window

1919
gouache on paper
Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Patrick Henry Bruce
Painting - Still Life
ca. 1923
oil on canvas
Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid

Charles Buchel
The Tempest
Miss Viola Tree's Company
Aldwych Theatre

1921
lithograph (poster)
Victoria & Albert Museum, London

George Bellows
The Life Class
1917
lithograph
Milwaukee Art Museum

George Bellows
Dempsey and Firpo
1923
lithograph
Milwaukee Art Museum

Rockwell Kent
Figure with Upstretched Arms
ca. 1920
drawing
Phillips Collection, Washington DC

Rockwell Kent
Azopardo River
1922
oil on canvas
Phillips Collection, Washington DC

Adolfo De Carolis
Cover Design for Il Notturno
by Gabriele D'Annunzio

1921
woodcut
private collection

Gabriele Münter
Staffelsee
1920
oil on canvas
Milwaukee Art Museum

Victor Servranckx
Opus 30 (Factory)
1922
oil on cardboard
Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid

Félix Vallotton
Red Roses
1920
oil on canvas
Musée d'Orsay, Paris

Georgia O'Keeffe
Apple Family 3
1921
oil on canvas
Milwaukee Art Museum

Then I understanding the cause of his miserable estate, sayd unto him, In faith thou art worthy to sustaine the most extreame misery and calamity, which hast defiled and maculated thyne owne body, forsaken thy wife traiterously, and dishonoured thy children, parents, and friends, for the love of a vile harlot and old strumpet. When Socrates heard mee raile against Meroe in such sort, he held up his finger to mee, and as halfe abashed sayd, Peace peace I pray you, and looking about lest any body should heare, I pray you (quoth hee) take heed what you say against so venerable a woman as shee is, lest by your intemperate tongue you catch some harm. Then with resemblance of admiration, What (quoth I) is she so excellent a person as you name her to be? I pray you tell mee. Then answered hee, Verily shee is a Magitian, which hath power to rule the heavens, to bring downe the sky, to beare up the earth, to turne the waters into hills, and the hills into running waters, to lift up the terrestrial spirits into the aire, and to pull the gods out of the heavens, to extinguish the planets, and to lighten the deepe darkenesse of hell.

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