Pollock - Penguin - Schwitters - Roberts

Jackson Pollock
Blue Poles
1952
oil, enamel and aluminum paint on canvas
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Jackson Pollock
Totem Lesson 2
1945
oil on canvas
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Jackson Pollock
Figure Kneeling before Arch with Skulls
ca. 1934-38
oil on canvas
Dallas Museum of Art

Jackson Pollock
Untitled
ca. 1933-39
drawing (graphite and crayon)
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Penguin Books
Elizabethan Miniatures
1943
offset-print and letterpress
(cover  design by William Grimmond) 
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Penguin Books
The Crown Jewels
1951
offset-print and letterpress
(cover  design by Paxton Chadwick)
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Penguin Books
Some British Moths
1944
offset-print and letterpress
(cover  design by Enid Marx)
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Penguin Books
A Book of Ducks
1951
offset-print and letterpress
(cover  design by Peter Shepheard)
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Kurt Schwitters
Mz-426 Figures
1922
collage of printed and textured papers
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa

Kurt Schwitters
Abstract Composition
ca. 1923-25
oil on canvas
Kunstmuseum, The Hague

Kurt Schwitters
Merzzeichnung
1930
collage of printed and textured papers 
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa

Kurt Schwitters
Bunte Zeitungsfetzen
1947
collage of printed papers with added gouache
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Tom Roberts
Boat on Beach, Queenscliff
ca. 1887
oil on canvas
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Tom Roberts
The Quarry, Maria Island
1926
oil on canvas
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Tom Roberts
Roses
1911
oil on canvas
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

Tom Roberts
Caleb Roberts
1907
plaster
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

from Ten Songs

On and on and on

The forthright catadoup

Shouts at the stone-deaf stone;

Over and over again,

Simply or as a group,

Weak diplomatic men

With a small defiant light

Salute the incumbent night. 

With or without a mind,

Chafant or outwardly calm, 

Each thing has an axe to grind

And exclaims its matter-of-fact;

The child with careful charm

Or a sudden opprobrious act,

The tiger, the griping fern,

Extort the world's concern. 

All, all, have rights to declare,

Not one is man enough

To be, simply, publicly, there

With no private emphasis;

So my embodied love

Which, like most feeling, is

Half humbug and half true,

Asks neighborhood of you.

– W.H. Auden (1947)