One Side Busier and Heavier

Rosalyn Drexler
Lovers
1963
acrylic paint and collage on canvas
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York

Édouard Vuillard
On the Sofa
ca. 1890-93
oil on cardboard
Pushkin Museum, Moscow

attributed to Hans von Aachen
The Deposition
ca. 1605
oil on canvas
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux

Mariotto Albertinelli
Incident from Genesis
ca. 1513
oil on panel
National Gallery, Athens

Arthur Devis
Portrait of Richard Moreton, Esq.
with niece and nephew, Susanna and John Weyland
1757
oil on canvas
Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts

Jan Brueghel the Elder (landscape)
and Hendrick de Clerck (figures)
Diana and Actaeon
ca. 1610
oil on panel
Národní Galerie, Prague

Anonymous Flemish Artist
Landscape with Courtly Figures
ca. 1700-1720
oil on copper
Museo Poldi Pezzoli, Milan

Philippe-Jacques de Loutherbourg (seascape)
and Pierre-Antoine de Machy (architecture)
Scene of Shipwreck
1771
oil on canvas
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

Ivan Aivazovsky
Blowing-Up of the Arkadi Monastery on Crete
1867
oil on canvas
National Gallery, Athens

Claude Monet
Low Tide at Pourville near Dieppe
1882
oil on canvas
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio

Hendrik Goudt after Adam Elsheimer
Tobias and the Angel
ca. 1613
drawing
(after now-lost Elsheimer painting and preparatory to engraving)
Morgan Library, New York

Jacob van der Ulft
Roman Ruins with Herdsman
ca. 1670
drawing
National Museum, Athens

Francesco Trevisani
Penitent Magdalen
ca. 1710
oil on canvas
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

Ernesto Parmeggiani
Orpheus
1902
oil on canvas
Museo Civico di Modena

Jan van Goyen
The Blasted Oak, or, The Fortune-Teller
1638
oil on canvas
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux

René Magritte
The Secret Life
1928
oil on canvas
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio

I call upon Persephone, queen of the dead,
And upon Hades, king of night, I call;

Chain all the Furies up that he may tread

The perilous pathways to the Stygian hall
And rest among his mighty peers at last,
For the entanglements of God are past.

Nor may the hundred-headed dog give tongue

Until the daughter of Earth and Tartarus
That even bloodless shades call Death has sung
The travel-broken shade of Oedipus
Through triumph of completed destiny
Into eternal sleep, if such there be.

– Sophocles, chorus from Oedipus at Colonus (405 BC), translated by W.B. Yeats (1934)

Affinities

Louis Faurer
New York City
ca. 1947
gelatin silver print
Art Institute of Chicago

Louis Faurer
New York City
ca. 1949
gelatin silver print
Art Institute of Chicago

Murray Walker
Untitled
1983
collage with watercolor and ink on postcard
Heide Museum of Modern Art, Bulleen, Australia

Murray Walker
Untitled
1983
collage with watercolor and ink on postcard
Heide Museum of Modern Art, Bulleen, Australia

Ferdinand Tietz 
Bust of Apollo
ca. 1764-65
sandstone
Bayerisches Nationalmuseum, Munich

Ferdinand Tietz
Bust of Mercury
ca. 1765
sandstone
Bayerisches Nationalmuseum, Munich

Vicki Varvaressos
Portrait of Frank Watters
1980
acrylic on canvas
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

Vicki Varvaressos
Six-Foot Caucasian with Beard
1976
acrylic and collage on paper, mounted on canvas
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

Anonymous British Maker
Stomacher
17th century
silk embroidery on silk
Art Institute of Chicago

Anonymous British Maker
Stomacher
ca. 1700-1730
silk lined with linen
Art Museums of Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia

Andy Warhol
Mick Jagger
1975
screenprint
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam

Andy Warhol
Unidentified Waiter resisting Photography
1982
gelatin silver print
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide

Jacopo Tintoretto
Portrait of Woman in Mourning
ca. 1550-55
oil on canvas
Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden

Jacopo Tintoretto
Young Man with Sculpture of Lucretia
ca. 1555
oil on canvas
Alte Pinakothek, Munich

Johann Friedrich August Tischbein
Portrait of a Lady
1796
oil on canvas
Národní Galerie, Prague

Johann Friedrich August Tischbein
Portrait of Christiane Caroline Mesmer
1804
oil on canvas
Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden

The School Children

The children go forward with their little satchels.

And all morning the mothers have labored

to gather the late apples, red and gold,

like words of another language.

And on the other shore 

are those who wait behind great desks 

to receive these offerings.

How orderly they are – the nails

on which the children hang

their overcoats of blue or yellow wool.

And the teachers shall instruct them in silence

and the mothers shall scour the orchards for a way out,

drawing to themselves the gray limbs of the fruit trees

bearing so little ammunition.

– Louise Glück (1975)

Sketches and Studies - III

Hippolyte Flandrin
Moses commanding the Waters to cover the Egyptian Host
1858
oil on cardboard
(modello for painting, Saint-Germain des Près, Paris)
Princeton University Art Museum

Camillo Rusconi
Monument to Pope Gregory XIII
1716-17
terracotta modello
Hermitage, Saint Petersburg

Franz Anton Maulbertsch
The Holy Trinity
ca. 1780-90
oil on canvas
(modello for altarpiece)
Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest

Federico Zuccaro
The Calumny of Apelles
ca. 1569
drawing
(modello for painting)
Hamburger Kunsthalle

Francisque Duret (François-Joseph Duret)
Chactas with the corpse of Atala
(protagonists of Chateaubriand's novella, Atala)
ca. 1835
terracotta modello
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon

Lorenzo Bartolini
Countess Marina Dmitrievna Gur'eva
1821
plaster modello for marble statue
Palazzo Pretorio, Prato

Jean-Baptiste Corneille
Mythological Scene
before 1695
drawing
(study for ceiling painting, Hôtel de Sagonne)
Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh

Corrado Giaquinto
The Annunciation
ca. 1750
oil on canvas
(sketch)
Galleria Borghese, Rome

Moritz von Schwind
Scenes from Goethe's Faust
ca. 1850
drawing
(modello for painting)
Milwaukee Art Museum

Louis-Claude Vassé
Study for Sleeping Shepherd
ca. 1745
terracotta modello
High Museum of Art, Atlanta

Peter Paul Rubens
Martyrdom of St Livinus
ca. 1633-35
oil on panel
(modello for altarpiece)
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam

Daniel Neuberger
Scene of Abduction
1670
watercolor
(modello for wax relief)
Hamburger Kunsthalle

Nicolas-André Monsiaux
Death of the painter Raphael
1804
drawing
(modello for now-lost painting)
Hamburger Kunsthalle

Joseph Mages
Conversion of St Augustine
ca. 1760
oil on canvas
(modello for now-lost fresco)
Deutsche Barockgalerie, Augsburg

François Rude
Bust of Hebe
ca. 1848-50
terracotta modello for marble sculpture
High Museum of Art, Atlanta

Joseph Chinard
Bust Portrait of Juliette Récamier
ca. 1801-1802
terracotta modello for marble sculpture
Getty Museum, Los Angeles

What is this portent? What does it shadow forth?
Have Heaven and Earth in dreadful marriage lain?
What shall the allotted season bring to birth?

This blind old ragged, rambling beggar-man
Calls curses upon cities, upon the great,
And scatters at his pleasure rich estate.

Thunder has stirred the hair upon my head.
What horror comes to birth? What shall be found,

That travail finished, on the lowly bed?
Never in vain the dreadful thunder sounds,

Nor can the living lightning flash in vain;

Heaven has borne a child and shrieks from pain.

Once more that dreadful sound! God pity us
When all is finished on the bed of earth,
Nor hold us all unclean for Oedipus.

Whatever fate maternal sky bring forth,
Pity Colonna, nor lay us under ban
Because of Oedipus the beggar-man.

Come, King of Athens, father of the land –
Whether at Poseidon's altars and the still
Unfinished sacrifice, or close at hand –
A blind old beggar-man proclaims God's will,
Proclaims a blessing on the land and us;
Come, King of Athens, come, King Theseus.

– Sophocles, chorus from Oedipus at Colonus (405 BC), translated by W.B. Yeats (1934)

Tempera (20th Century)

Lothar Schreyer
Anima Christi
ca. 1921
tempera on canvas
Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Tsugouharu Foujita
Portrait of Emily Crane Chadbourne
1922
tempera on canvas
Art Institute of Chicago

Stanley Anderson
Gleaners
ca. 1926
tempera on canvas
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide

Helen Torr
Extemporaneous
1927
tempera on metal, mounted on panel
Art Institute of Chicago

Aleksandr Golovin
Stage Design for the Countess's Bedroom in Mozart's Marriage of Figaro
1927
tempera on panel
Moscow Art Theatre Museum

Charles Demuth
Waiting (Ventilators)
1930
tempera on board
Art Institute of Chicago

Joaquín Torres-Garcia
Construction with White Line
1938
tempera on board
Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Bruce Alonzo Goff
Composition
before 1940
tempera on paper
Art Institute of Chicago

Ben Shahn
Contemporary American Sculpture
1940
tempera on paper, mounted on panel
Art Institute of Chicago

Rena Varenes
Still Life
1944
tempera on paper
Lyman Allyn Art Museum, New London, Connecticut

Margo Hoff
Doorways
before 1948
tempera on board
Art Institute of Chicago

George Tooker
Bird Watchers
1948
tempera on board
New Britain Museum of American Art, Connecticut

Hans Hofmann
The Dancer
1949
tempera on canvas
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Robert Remsen Vickrey
Clown in Gold Cape
1962
tempera on board
San Diego Museum of Art

Marianne Willisch
Sigmund Edelstone Apartment - Presentation Interior Design Drawing
ca. 1965
graphite and tempera on paper
Art Institute of Chicago

Robert Julius Brawley
Julia in Reverie
1983
tempera on paper
Art Institute of Chicago

Gratitude

Do not think I am not grateful for your small

kindness to me.

I like small kindnesses.

In fact I actually prefer them to the more

substantial kindness, that is always eyeing you,

like a large animal on a rug,

until your whole life reduces

to nothing but waking up morning after morning

cramped, and the bright sun shining on its tusks.

– Louise Glück (1975)