Monday, March 4, 2024

Visual Relics (1945-1953)

Pierre Bonnard
View from the Artist's Studio, Le Cannet
1945
oil on canvas
Milwaukee Art Museum

Walt Kuhn
Sandy
1946
oil on canvas
Minneapolis Institute of Art

Walt Kuhn
Study for Robert
1946
drawing
Minneapolis Institute of Art

Raoul Dufy
Le Concert Rouge
ca. 1946-49
oil on canvas
Milwaukee Art Museum

Patricia Blake
Still Life
ca. 1947
oil on canvas
Minneapolis Institute of Art

Bernard Perlin
In the Garden
1949
tempera on paper
Princeton University Art Museum

Joseph Cornell
Lighted Owl
ca. 1949
assemblage (glass, wood, paper)
Art Institute of Chicago

Fernand Léger
Yellow Guitar and Blue Vase
1950
oil on canvas
Milwaukee Art Museum

Fernand Léger
The City
1950
watercolor
Milwaukee Art Museum

Giorgio Morandi
Still Life
1950
oil on canvas
Phillips Collection, Washington DC

Giorgio Morandi
Still Life
1953
oil on canvas
Phillips Collection, Washington DC

Graham Sutherland
Three Standing Forms in a Garden
1951
oil on canvas
Minneapolis Institute of Art

Graham Sutherland
Bird
1953
lithograph
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri

Paul Cadmus
Enzo Asleep
1952
drawing
Yale University Art Gallery

Paul Cadmus
Mobile
1953
screenprint
Yale University Art Gallery

Carel Willink
Landscape in Puy de Dôme
1952
oil on canvas
Centraal Museum, Utrecht

And while we went talking thus together, by little and little wee came to her house, and behold the gates of the same were very beautifully set with pillars quadrangle wise, on the top wherof were placed carved statues and images, but principally the Goddess of Victory was so lively and with such excellencie portrayed and set forth, that you would verily have thought that she had flyed, and hovered with her wings hither and thither. On the contrary part, the Image of the goddess Diana was wrought in white marble, which was a marvellous sight to see, for shee seemed as though the winde did blow up her garments, and that she did encounter with them that came into the house. On each side of her were Dogs made of stone, that seemed to menace with their fiery eyes, their pricked eares, their bended nosethrils, and their grinning teeth, in such sort that you would have thought they had bayed and barked. And moreover (which was a greater marvel to behold) the excellent carver and deviser of this worke had fashioned the Dogs to stand up fiercely with their former feet, and their hinder feet on the ground ready to fight.   

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