Tuesday, November 12, 2024

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)