Friday, March 1, 2024

Visual Relics (1924-1930)

Ker-Xavier Roussel
The Fountain of Youth
ca. 1924
oil and tempera on canvas
Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia

Martel Schwichtenberg
Still Life with Green Vase
1924
oil on canvas
private collection

Martel Schwichtenberg
Two Irises
ca. 1925
oil on canvas
private collection

Edward Hopper
New York Pavements
1924-25
oil on canvas
Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia

William Nicholson
Makeup Design for Ballet Production
ca. 1925
drawing (colored chalks)
Art Institute of Chicago

Karl Hofer
Young People
ca. 1925
watercolor and gouache
Art Institute of Chicago

Marie Laurencin
Little Actresses
1927
oil on canvas
Milwaukee Art Museum

Luigi Lucioni
Portrait of Paul Cadmus
1928
oil on canvas
Brooklyn Museum

Benjamin Miller
Judith in the Tent of Holofernes
1928
woodcut
Minneapolis Institute of Art

Arthur Bowen Davies
Dionysos
1928
oil on canvas
Princeton University Art Museum

Marsden Hartley
Mushrooms on a Blue Background
1929
oil on masonite
Indianapolis Museum of Art

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Brandenburg Gate
1929
oil on canvas
Städel Museum, Frankfurt

Nicolas Sternberg
Lady Ligei
(character in a story by Edgar Allan Poe)
1929
drawing
Minneapolis Institute of Art

John Steuart Curry
Hogs killing a Snake
ca. 1930
oil on canvas
Art Institute of Chicago

Natalia Goncharova
Water Lilies in a Bowl
ca. 1930
oil on canvas
Milwaukee Art Museum

Piet Mondrian
Fox Trot A
1930
oil on canvas
Yale University Art Gallery

In faith Aristomenus to tell you the truth, this woman had a certaine Lover, whom by the utterance of one only word she turned into a Bever, because he loved another woman beside her: and the reason why she transformed him into such a beast is, for that it is his nature, when hee perceiveth the hunters and hounds to draw after him, to bite off his members, and lay them in the way, that the hounds may be at a stop when they finde them, and to the intent it might so happen unto him (because he fancied another woman) she turned him into that kinde of shape.

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