Friday, April 5, 2024

Schinkel - John - Corinth - Sargent

Karl Friedrich Schinkel
Stage Design for the opera Undine by E.T.A. Hoffmann
ca. 1815-16
watercolor and gouache on paper
Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Karl Friedrich Schinkel
Ancient City on a Hill
ca. 1803-1805
gouache on paper
Alte Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Karl Friedrich Schinkel
Schloss Prediama
1816
lithograph
Graphische Sammlung, ETH Zürich

Karl Friedrich Schinkel
Papyrus along River Anapo near Syracuse
1804
drawing
Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Augustus John
Shelled Buildings with Water Wheel
ca. 1917-18
drawing
Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston, Ontario

Augustus John
Canadian Soldiers
ca. 1916
drawing
Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston, Ontario

Augustus John
Signorina Estella
ca. 1900
oil on canvas
Manchester Art Gallery

Augustus John
Marchesa Casati
1919
oil on canvas
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto

Lovis Corinth
Portrait of Alexander, Freiherr von Reitzenstein
1913
oil on canvas
San Diego Museum of Art

Lovis Corinth
Forge of Vulcan
1919-20
etching
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh

Lovis Corinth
Mirror of Venus
1919-20
etching
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh

Lovis Corinth
Odysseus and the Suitors
1919-20
etching
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh

John Singer Sargent
Astarte
ca. 1893-94
oil on canvas
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston


John Singer Sargent
Portrait of Ellen Archer Eveleth Smith
1883
oil on canvas
Portland Museum of Art, Maine

John Singer Sargent
Portrait of Mrs Daniel Sargent Curtis
1882
oil on canvas
Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence
 
John Singer Sargent
Tarragona
ca. 1908
watercolor and gouache on paper
New Britain Museum of American Art, Connecticut

from Part Three of The Age of Anxiety

Malin says:
     Our ideas have got drunk and drop their H's.

Emble:
     We err what we are as if we were not.

Rosetta:
     The honest and holy are hissed at the races.

Quant:
     God's in his greenhouse, his geese in the world.

     Saying this, they woke up and recognized where they sat and who they were. The darkness which had invaded their dreams was explained, for it was closing time and the bartender was turning off the lights. What they had just dreamed they could no longer recall exactly, but when Emble and Rosetta looked at each other, they were conscious of some sweet shared secret which it might be dangerous to remember too well. Perhaps it was this which prompted Rosetta to suggest that they all come back to her apartment for a snack and a nightcap for, when they accepted, she realized that she had been expecting Quant and Malin to decline. But it was too late now. They were out in the street already and Emble had hailed a cab. 

– W.H. Auden (1944-46)