Tuesday, June 18, 2024

Made in 1947

John Sennhauser
Colorforms in Colorspace #2
1947
oil on canvas
New Britain Museum of American Art, Connecticut

Harry Sternberg
Fascism
1947
screenprint
San Diego Museum of Art

Knud Merrild
Flux Bouquet
1947
oil on panel
Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Ruzzie Green
Advertising Shot for Crosley Shelvador Refrigerators
1947
tricolor carbro print
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Frederick Henri Kay Henrion
VD - a shadow on happiness
1947
lithograph (poster)
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Arshile Gorky
Plumage Landscape
1947
oil on canvas
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Adolph Gottlieb
Totem
1947
oil on canvas
Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Laura Gilpin
Portrait of writer Mabel Dodge Luhan
1947
gelatin silver print
New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe

Lina Bryans
Nina Christesen
1947
oil on canvas
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

James Gleeson
Standing Model
1947
ink and wash on paper
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

James Gleeson
Standing Model
1947
ink and wash on paper
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

Kelly Fearing
Boy flying Kite - Fish watching
1947-48
oil on canvas
McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas

Harold Edgerton
Hummingbird
1947
tricolor carbro print
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Goodridge Roberts
Boy in Red Shirt
1947
oil on canvas
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa

Ida Wyman
Wrought Iron with Snow
1947
gelatin silver print
San Jose Museum of Art, California

Giorgio Morandi
Still Life
1947
oil on canvas
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

from The Quest

Incredulous, he stared at the amused
Official writing down his name among
Those whose request to suffer was refused.

The pen ceased scratching: though he came too late
To join the martyrs, there was still a place
Among the tempters for a caustic tongue

To test the resolution of the young
With tales of the small failings of the great,
And shame the eager with ironic praise.

Though mirrors might be hateful for a while,
Women and books would teach his middle age
The fencing wit of an informal style,
To keep the silences at bay and cage
His pacing manias in a worldly smile. 

– W.H. Auden (1940)