R.B. Kitaj Dismantling the Red Tent 1963-64 oil and collage on canvas Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
R.B. Kitaj His Every Move 1966 screenprint National Gallery of Australia, Canberra |
R.B. Kitaj Los Angeles no. 19 (Fox) 2003 oil on canvas Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
R.B. Kitaj Nerves - Massage - Defeat - Heart 1967 screenprint National Gallery of Australia, Canberra |
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Garden Cafe with Soldier 1909 drawing National Gallery of Australia, Canberra |
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Portrait of a Woman ca. 1908 gouache on paper National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa |
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Still Life 1907 color woodblock print National Gallery of Australia, Canberra |
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Three Women Talking 1907 color woodblock print National Gallery of Australia, Canberra |
Owen Jones Grammar of Ornament - Half-Title Page 1856 chromolithograph National Gallery of Australia, Canberra |
Owen Jones Grammar of Ornament - Illuminated MSS 1856 chromolithograph National Gallery of Australia, Canberra |
Owen Jones Grammar of Ornament - Middle Ages 1856 chromolithograph National Gallery of Australia, Canberra |
Owen Jones Grammar of Ornament - Nineveh & Persia 1856 chromolithograph National Gallery of Australia, Canberra |
Joseph Christian Leyendecker Study of Cast of Antique Sculpture ca. 1895 drawing Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington |
Joseph Christian Leyendecker Sketch of Dancer kicking Tambourine 1895 watercolor and gouache on board Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington |
Joseph Christian Leyendecker Self Culture 1897 lithograph (poster for magazine) Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington |
Joseph Christian Leyendecker Study for Fashion Illustration ca. 1920 oil on canvas New Britain Museum of American Art, Connecticut |
May
May with its light behaving
Stirs vessel, eye and limb,
The singular and sad
Are willing to recover,
And to each swan-delighting river
The careless picnics come
In living white and red.
Our dead, remote and hooded,
In hollows rest, but we
From their vague woods have broken,
Forests where children meet
And the white angel-vampires flit,
Stand now with shaded eye,
The dangerous apple taken.
The real world lies before us,
Brave motions of the young,
Abundant wish for death,
The pleasing, pleasured, haunted:
A dying Master sinks tormented
In his admirers' ring,
The unjust walk the earth.
And love that makes impatient
Tortoise and roe, that lays
The blonde beside the dark,
Urges upon our blood,
Before the evil and the good
How insufficient is
Touch, endearment, look.
– W.H. Auden (1934)