Saturday, March 2, 2024

Visual Relics (1930-1935)

Emil Nolde
Two Bearded Men
ca. 1930
watercolor
Milwaukee Art Museum

Ben Shahn
Sacco and Vanzetti in the Courtroom Cage
ca. 1931-32
watercolor and gouache
Princeton University Art Museum

Rockwell Kent
Beowulf
1931
lithograph
Milwaukee Art Museum

Rockwell Kent
Beowulf and Grendel's Mother
1931
lithograph
Milwaukee Art Museum

Max Beckmann
The Skaters
1932
oil on canvas
Minneapolis Institute of Art

Paul Nash
Pillar and Moon
ca. 1932
oil on canvas
Tate Gallery

Albinson-Ernest-Dewey-
St Croix Rapids
1933
oil on canvas
Minneapolis Institute of Art

Marsden Hartley
Garmisch-Partenkirchen
1933
oil on cardboard
Milwaukee Art Museum

Fritz Rosen
Starke hand - rettet das Land
(A Strong Hand rescues the Country -
from Socialism, Fascism and Communism)
ca. 1933
lithograph (poster)
Victoria & Albert Museum, London

Hans Heysen
A Cottage Bunch
1930
oil on canvas
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

Walt Kuhn
American Beauty
1934
oil on canvas
Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia

Walt Kuhn
Blue Juggler
1934
oil on canvas
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri

Paul Cadmus
Going South
1934
etching
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio

Paul Cadmus
YMCA Locker Room
1934
etching
Minneapolis Institute of Art

Paul Cadmus
Horseplay
1935
etching
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio

Paul Cadmus
Coney Island
1934
oil on canvas
Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Moreover she caused, that the wife of a certain lover that she had should never be delivered of her childe, but according to the computation of all men, it is eight yeares past since the poore woman began first to swell, and now shee is encreased so big, that shee seemeth as though she would bring forth some great Elephant: which when it was knowne abroad, and published throughout all the towne, they tooke indignation against her, and ordayned that the next day shee should most cruelly be stoned to death. Which purpose of theirs she prevented by the vertue of her inchantments, and as Medea (who obtained of King Creon but one days respit before her departure) did burne all his house, him, and his daughter: so she, by her conjurations and invocations of spirits (which she useth in a certaine hole in her house, as shee her selfe declared unto me the next day following) closed all the persons in the towne so sure in their houses, and with such violence of power, that for the space of two dayes they could not get forth, nor open their gates nor doore, nor break downe their walls, whereby they were inforced by mutuall consent to cry unto her, and to binde themselves strictly by oaths, that they would never afterwards molest or hurt her: and moreover, if any did offer her any injury they would be ready to defend her.  

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