Monday, June 24, 2024

Contorted Figures

Nicolai Abildgaard
The Wounded Philoctetes
1775
oil on canvas
Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen

Arthur Putnam
Study of Model
ca. 1906-1908
drawing
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
(Achenbach Foundation)

Walter Shirlaw
Académie
ca. 1870
drawing
Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio

Albrecht Dürer
The Desperate Man
ca. 1515
etching
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

Anonymous British Artist after William Etty
The Combat
ca. 1840
oil on canvas
York City Art Gallery

Amedeo Modigliani
Caryatid
ca. 1914
drawing
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

Amedeo Modigliani
Caryatid
1914
drawing, with watercolor
Denver Art Museum

Anonymous East Indian Artist
Copulation with Facsimile Partners
early 20th century
gouache on paper
Wellcome Collection, London

Max Weber
Figure Study
1911
oil on canvas
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York

Keith Vaughan
Figures
ca. 1960
oil on paper
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio

Wilfred Avery
Two Figures Undressing
1992
drawing
Museum of Barnstaple and North Devon

Jan Harmensz Muller after Adriaen de Vries
Roman abducting a Sabine Woman
ca. 1595-1600
engraving
Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia

Jan Harmensz Muller after Adriaen de Vries
Roman abducting a Sabine Woman
ca. 1595-1600
engraving
Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia

Jan Harmensz Muller after Adriaen de Vries
Roman abducting a Sabine Woman
ca. 1595-1600
engraving
Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia

William Blake Richmond
Falling Figure
ca. 1880
drawing
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Pat Douthwaite
The End of the World
1970
oil on canvas
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh

from Fiascherino
                                           Glare
Pierces muslin; its broken rays 
    Hovering in trembling filaments
Glance on the ceiling with no more substance

Than a bee's wing. Thickening, these
    Hang down over the pink walls
In green bars, and, flickering between them,
    A moving fan of two colours,
The sea unrolls and rolls itself into the low room. 

– Charles Tomlinson (1955)