Friday, October 11, 2024

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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)