Thursday, March 7, 2024

Visual Relics (1968-1977)

Helen Frankenthaler
Almond
1968
oil on canvas
Milwaukee Art Museum

Christo
Portrait of Ray
1969
tarp and rope over oil on canvas
Los Angeles County Museum of Art

John Clem Clarke
Judgement of Paris IV
1969
oil on canvas
Milwaukee Art Museum

Elizabeth Osborne
Woman in Belgravia Hotel
1969
oil on canvas
Minneapolis Institute of Art

Sam Francis
White Bone
1971
lithograph
Minneapolis Institute of Art

Andy Warhol
Electric Chair
1971
screenprint
Princeton University Art Museum

George Tooker
Mirror III
ca. 1970-71
oil on panel
Indianapolis Museum of Art

Richard Diebenkorn
Ocean Park No. 38
1971
oil on canvas
Phillips Collection, Washington DC

Richard Diebenkorn
Ocean Park No. 45
1971
oil on canvas
Art Institute of Chicago

Richard Diebenkorn
Ocean Park No. 49
1972
oil on canvas
Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Richard Diebenkorn
Ocean Park No. 68
1974
oil on canvas
Milwaukee Art Museum

Raymond Mason
The Departure of Fruit and Vegetables from the Heart of Paris
1971
epoxy resin and acrylic paint
Tate Gallery

Alex Katz
Ada with Hand
1972
oil on canvas
Milwaukee Art Museum

Richard Estes
Seagram Building
1972
screenprint
Milwaukee Art Museum

David Novros
Untitled
1975
watercolor on paper
Minneapolis Institute of Art

Daniel Bennett Schwartz
Seated Woman
1977
watercolor on paper
Princeton University Art Museum

After that I had well rubbed every part and member of my body, I hovered with myne armes, and moved my selfe, looking still when I should bee changed into a Bird as Pamphiles was, and behold neither feathers nor appearance of feathers did burgen out, but verily my haire did turne in ruggednesse, and my tender skin waxed tough and hard, my fingers and toes losing the number of five, changed into hoofes, and out of myne arse grew a great taile, now my face became monstrous, my nosthrils wide, my lips hanging downe, and myne eares rugged with haire: neither could I see any comfort of my transformation, for my members encreased likewise, and so without all helpe (viewing every part of my poore body) I perceived that I was no bird, but a plaine Asse. 

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