Saturday, June 8, 2024

Made in 1933

Harry Parr
Portrait of the artist's daughter Katharine
1933
enameled earthenware
Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto

Marguerite Mahood
Gothic Figure
1933
glazed earthenware
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

Horst P. Horst
Madame Arturo Ramos
1933
gelatin silver print
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Marie Laurencin
The Black Gloves
1933
oil on canvas
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

Yulia Biriukova
Portrait of Mrs Carl Schaefer, née Lillian Evers
1933
oil on canvas
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto

William McCloy
Homer Dill
1933
oil on board
New Britain Museum of American Art. Connecticut

Irene Rice Pereira
Ventilators
1933
oil on canvas
Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami

Sarah Robertson
Decoration
1933
oil on canvas
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa

Percy Trompf
Great Barrier Coral Reef
1933
lithograph (poster)
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Arthur Rackham
Goblin Market by Christina Rossetti
1933
offset print and letterpress
(book cover)
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Arthur Rackham
Goblin Market by Christina Rossetti
1933
offset print
(book illustration)
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Agnes Pelton
Winter
1933
oil on canvas
Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, California

Rebecca James
Salsbury Magnolia
1933
oil on canvas
Denver Art Museum

Gladys Gibbons
Still Life
1933
linocut
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Roy Cox
Ex Libris - Fay Cox
(sister of the artist)
1933
linocut
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

from The Quest

All had been ordered weeks before the start
From the best firms at such work: instruments
To take the measure of all queer events,
And drugs to move the bowels or the heart.

A watch, of course, to wach impatience fly,
Lamps for the dark and shades against the sun;
Foreboding, too, insisted on a gun,
And coloured beads to soothe a savage eye.

In theory they were sound on Expectation,
Had there been situations to be in;
Unluckily they were their situation:

One should not give a poisoner medicine,
A conjurer fine apparatus, nor
A rifle to a melancholic bore. 

– W.H. Auden (1940)