Tuesday, June 11, 2024

Kelly - Lynes - Maudsley - Mayo

Ellsworth Kelly
Red Green Blue
1964
oil on canvas
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis

Ellsworth Kelly
Red Orange White Green Blue
1968
oil on canvas
Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California

Ellsworth Kelly
Light Blue with Orange
1964-65
screenprint
Wichita Art Museum, Kansas

Ellsworth Kelly
Spectrum
1973
screenprint
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

George Platt Lynes
Edith Sitwell
ca. 1950
gelatin silver print
Art Institute of Chicago

George Platt Lynes
Gertrude Stein
ca. 1946
gelatin silver print
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

George Platt Lynes
Paul Cadmus
ca, 1942
gelatin silver print
Dallas Museum of Art

George Platt Lynes
W.H. Auden
ca. 1940
gelatin silver print
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Helen Maudsley
Artistic Lady
1956
gouache on paper
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

Helen Maudsley
The Evening Creatures
ca. 1955
gouache on paper
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Helen Maudsley
The Listening Man
1956
gouache on paper
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

Helen Maudsley
Untitled
1951
gouache on paper
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Eileen Mayo
Design for Ex Libris - Julian Beale
ca. 1950
gouache on paper
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Eileen Mayo
Ex Libris - Howard Beale
ca. 1950
lithograph
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Eileen Mayo
Ornamental Crab
1966
gouache on paper
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Eileen Mayo
Ornamental Fish
1966
gouache on paper
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

from The Quest 

In villages from which their childhoods came
Seeking Necessity, they had been taught
Necessity by nature is the same
No matter how or by whom it be sought.

The city, though, assumed no such belief,
But welcomed each as if he came alone,
The nature of Necessity like grief
Exactly corresponding to his own. 

And offered them so many, every one
Found some temptation fit to govern him,
And settled down to master the whole craft

Of being nobody; sat in the sun
During the lunch-hour round the fountain rim,
And watched the country kids arrive, and laughed. 

– W.H. Auden (1940)