Adolf Cattalinich Bad People Have Nightmares 1995 colored pencil on paper Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York |
Jon Campbell For Fuck's Sake 2014 watercolor and gouache on paper Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney |
Kay Fallows Hargreaves Lethe (Creation Series) ca. 1970 acrylic on canvas Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, British Columbia |
Thomas Hargreaves Miniature Portrait of Henrietta Clay 1828 watercolor on ivory Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge |
Thomas Hargreaves Miniature Portrait of a Man ca. 1800 watercolor and gouache on ivory Yale Center for British Art |
Noel Harbutt Roman Bath ca. 1935 gelatin silver print National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa |
Joseph Ignaz Gurk Design for Fanciful Organ ca. 1795-1805 watercolor and ink on paper Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
Mitch Cairns Peter Powditch 2015 oil on linen Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney |
Abdón Castañeda Virgin and Child in Glory ca. 1620 oil on canvas Museo de Bellas Artes de Valencia |
Thomas Eakins Between Rounds (study of model Billy Smith for larger painting) ca. 1898 oil on canvas Wichita Art Museum, Kansas |
Édouard Manet The Melon ca. 1880 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
Joseph Hartmann Portrait of Wilhelm Heinrich Seyd and Family 1845 oil on canvas Hessisches Landesmuseum, Darmstadt |
Louwrens Hanedoes Landscape with a Mill 1853 oil on canvas Teylers Museum, Haarlem |
Hugo von Habermann Head of a Woman 1875 oil on canvas Lenbachhaus, Munich |
Elmer Stanley Hader Sand Strip, West Point, Maine 1921 oil on board Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
Michael Haider (Master of the Hohenlandenberg Altar) Virgin and Child ca. 1500 oil on panel Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris |
The Decoys
There are some birds in these valleys
Who flutter round the careless
With intimate appeal,
By seeming kindness trained to snaring,
They feel no falseness.
Under the spell completely
They circle can serenely,
And in the tricky light
The masked hill has a purer greenness.
Their flight looks fleeter.
But fowlers, O, like foxes,
Lie ambushed in the rushes.
Along the harmless tracks
The madman keeper crawls through brushwood,
Axe under oxter.
Alas, the signal given,
Fingers on trigger tighten.
The real unlucky dove
Must smarting fall away from brightness,
Its love from living.
– W.H. Auden (1931)