Marsden Hartley The Bright Breakfast of Minnie ca. 1915 oil on board Denver Art Museum |
Marsden Hartley Purple Mountains, Vence 1925-26 oil on canvas Phoenix Art Museum |
Marsden Hartley Mountains no. 19 1930 oil on board Dallas Museum of Art |
Marsden Hartley Masks ca. 1931-32 oil on canvas Walker Art Center, Minneapolis |
Achille Devéria Seven in the Morning (series, Hours of the Day) ca. 1830-35 hand-colored lithograph Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts |
Achille Devéria Noon (series, Hours of the Day) ca. 1830-35 hand-colored lithograph Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts |
Achille Devéria Three in the Afternoon (series, Hours of the Day) ca. 1830-35 hand-colored lithograph Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts |
Ralph Gibson Déja Vu (#2) 1972 gelatin silver print Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Fredericton, New Brunswick |
Ralph Gibson Untitled 1980 gelatin silver print Art Institute of Chicago |
Ralph Gibson Untitled 1998 gelatin silver print Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
Ralph Gibson Untitled ca. 1970 gelatin silver print New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe |
Gathie Falk Soft Chair with Suit and Black Dress 1986 oil on canvas Museum London, Ontario |
Gathie Falk Chair with Pile of Camelias, Back View 1985 oil on canvas Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Fredericton, New Brunswick |
Gathie Falk Chair with Feather Boa 1985 oil on canvas Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Fredericton, New Brunswick |
Gathie Falk Chair with Plaid Shirt 1985 oil on canvas Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Fredericton, New Brunswick |
from Part Three of The Age of Anxiety
Emble says:
As yet the young hero's
Brow is unkissed by battle,
But he knows how necessary
Is his defiance of fate
And, serene already, he sails
Down the gorge between the august
Faces carved on the cliffs
Towards the lordship of the world.
Towards the lordship of the world.
And the gentle majority are not
Afraid either, but, owl-like
And sedate in their glass globes
And sedate in their glass globes
The wedded couples wave
At the bandits racing by
With affection, and the learned relax
On pinguid plains among
A swarm of flying flowers.
But otherwise is it with the play
Of the child whom chance decrees
To say what all men suffer:
Of the child whom chance decrees
To say what all men suffer:
For he wishes against his will
To be lost, and his fear leads him
To dales of driving rain
Where peasants with penthouse eyebrows
Sullenly guard the sluices.
And his steps follow the stream
Past rusting apparatus
To its gloomy beginning, the original
Chasm where brambles block
The entrance to the underworld;
Past rusting apparatus
To its gloomy beginning, the original
Chasm where brambles block
The entrance to the underworld;
There the silence blesses his sorrow,
And holy to his dread is that dark
Which will neither promise nor explain.
– W.H. Auden (1944-46)