Thursday, June 6, 2024

Made in 1932

Agnes Pelton
Messengers
1932
oil on canvas
Phoenix Art Museum, Arizona

Christian Waller
Lords of the Flame
1932
linocut
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Paul Kelpe
Composition #308
1932
oil on canvas
Los Angeles County Museum of Art

James Cant
Fig Trees
1932
oil on canvas
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Paul Citroen
Wim Oepts at the Easel
1932
gelatin silver print
Kunstmuseum, The Hague

James Kerr-Lawson
Elizabeth
1932
oil on canvas
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa

Robert Brackman
Portrait of Mrs Robert Wheelwright
1932
oil on canvas
Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington

Robert Brackman
Portrait of Renee du Pont Meeds
1932
oil on canvas
Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington

Peggy Bacon
Aesthetic Pleasure
1932
lithograph
San Jose Museum of Art, California

John Graham
Untitled (Still Life)
1932
oil on canvas
Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Raymond Jonson
City Dynamism
1932
oil on canvas
Phoenix Art Museum, Arizona

Max Beckmann
Self Portrait
1932
watercolor on paper
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh

Milton Avery
Mandolin Player
1932
gouache on paper
Phoenix Art Museum, Arizona

William Dobell
The Boy at the Basin
1932
oil on panel
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

Alison Rehfisch
Park Bench
1932
linocut
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Paul Stahr
Illustration for Argosy Magazine
1932
oil on canvas
New Britain Museum of American Art, Connecticut

Shorts

Motionless, deep in his mind, lies the past the poet's forgotten,
Till some small experience wake it to life and a poem's begotten,
Words its presumptive primordia, Feeling its field of induction,
Meaning its pattern of growth determined during construction.

                                   *

His ageing nature is the same
As when childhood wore its name
In an atmosphere of love,
And to itself appeared enough:
Only now, when he has come
In walking distance of his tomb, 
He at last discovers who
He had always been to whom
He so often was untrue.

                                   *

Do we want to return to the womb? Not at all.
No one really desires the impossible:
That is only the image out of a our past
We practical people use when we cast
Our eyes on the future, to whom freedom is
The absence of all dualities.
Since there never can be much of that for us
In the universe of Copernicus, 
Any heaven we think it decent to enter
Must be Ptolemaic with ourselves at the centre. 

– W.H. Auden (1940)