Friday, July 5, 2024

Busy Interiors - II

John Bellany
Queen Street Cafe
ca. 1991
oil on canvas
Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh

Henri Matisse
La Musique
1939
oil on canvas
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York

Charles Demuth
Dancing Sailors
1917
drawing, with watercolor
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio

James Tissot
L'Ambitieuse
1883-85
oil on canvas
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York

Hans Bock the Elder
Dance around a Statue of Venus
ca. 1580-90
oil on canvas
Städel Museum, Frankfurt

Ilse Bing
At the Moulin Rouge
1931
gelatin silver print
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio

Edward Biberman
Conspiracy
(response to the Red Scare)
ca. 1955
oil on board
Los Angeles County Museum of Art

James Northcote
Chess Players
1807
oil on canvas
Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, Massachusetts

Mabel Pryde
The Grange, Rottingdean
(the artist gave wages to her children for modeling)
1911
oil on canvas
Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh

Pseudo-Félix Chrétien
Scene in a Wine Cellar
1537
oil on panel
Städel Museum, Frankfurt

Thomas Rowlandson after James Dunthorne
The Hypochondriac
1788
hand-colored etching
Wellcome Collection, London

Édouard Vuillard
At the Board Game
1902
oil on panel
Städel Museum, Frankfurt

Christian Krohg
Albertine to see the Police Surgeon
(compulsory medical examination of prostitutes)
1885-87
oil on canvas
National Gallery of Norway, Oslo

Lucas Samaras
Still Life and Figure
ca. 1978-80
dye diffusion print
Denver Art Museum

Lee Miller
Henry Moore, Holborn Station, London
(sheltering from the Blitz)
1943
gelatin silver print
Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh

James Nasmyth
Lilliputian Figures in a Baronial Interior
1855
etching
Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh

from A Garland for Thomas Eakins

He lived
from his second year
at seventeen twentynine
Mount Vernon Street
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania where
he painted his
father and his sisters
and he died
in Pennsylvania in
Philadelphia at
seventeen twentynine
Mount Vernon Street. 

– Charles Tomlinson (1966)