Friday, July 12, 2024

Made in 1968

Jan Senbergs
Collapsing Structure
1968
screenprint
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

Gareth Sansom
The Great Democracy
1968
oil, enamel, acrylic and collage on board
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Juan Antonio Roda
Christ no. 2
1968
oil on canvas
Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, Texas 

Carson-Morris Studios (San Francisco)
Northern California Folk-Rock Festival
1968
lithograph (poster)
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto

Anonymous French Artist
Pouvoir Populaire, Oui
1968
screenprint (poster)
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Diane Arbus
Untitled
1968
gelatin silver print
Dallas Museum of Art

Lee Krasner
Pollination
1968
oil on canvas
Dallas Museum of Art

Louisa Matthiasdottir
Icelandic Picnic
1968
oil on canvas
Portland Museum of Art, Maine

Eric Metcalfe
The Departure
1968
gouache on paper
Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, British Columbia

Col Jordan
Daedalus
1968
acrylic on canvas
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Janet Dawson
Four Designs for Laminex Tables
1968
gouache on paper
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Mel Katz
Untitled
1968
oil on panel
Tacoma Art Museum, Washington State

Fernand Leduc
Érosion Orangé Bleu
1968
oil on canvas
Musée National des Beaux-Arts du Québec

Guido Molinari
Bi-Sérial Bleu-Orange
1968
acrylic on canvas
Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Fredericton, New Brunswick

Yoko Ono
Bottoms Wallpaper
1968
lithograph
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis

Geoffrey Beene
Evening Gown
1968
silk chiffon, sequins, ostrich feathers
Phoenix Art Museum, Arizona

In Memory of Ernst Toller

The shining neutral summer has no voice
To judge America, or ask how a man dies;
And the friends who are sad and the enemies who rejoice

Are chased by their shadows lightly away from the grave
Of one who was egotistical and brave,
Lest they should learn without suffering how to forgive. 

What was it, Ernst, that your shadow unwittingly said?
Did the small child see something horrid in the woodshed
Long ago? Or had the Europe which took refuge in your head

Already been too injured to get well?
For just how long, like the swallows in that other cell,
Had the bright little longings been flying in to tell

About the big and friendly death outside. 
Where people do not occupy or hide;
No towns like Munich; no need to write?

Dear Ernst, lie shadowless at last among
The other war-horses who existed till they'd done
Something that was an example to the young. 

We are lived by powers we pretend to understand:
They arrange our loves; it is they who direct at the end
The enemy bullet, the sickness, or even our hand.

It is their to-morrow hangs over the earth of the living
And all that we wish for our friends: but existence is believing
We know for whom we mourn, and who is grieving.  

– W.H. Auden (1939)