Sunday, November 17, 2024

Huszár - Hunt - Humphrey - Heward

Vilmos Huszár
Composition - De Stijl
ca. 1950-55
oil on canvas
Kunstmuseum, The Hague

Vilmos Huszár
Composition with White Head
1917
encaustic on panel
Kunstmuseum, The Hague

Vilmos Huszár
Dancers
ca. 1939
oil on canvas
Kunstmuseum, The Hague

Vilmos Huszár
Hammer and Saw (Still-Life Composition)
ca. 1917
oil on panel
Kunstmuseum, The Hague

William Henry Hunt
An Apple, Grapes and a Hazelnut on a Mossy Bank
before 1864
watercolor on paper
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

William Henry Hunt
Bird's Nest
ca. 1850
watercolor on paper
Frick Art Museum, Pittsburgh

William Henry Hunt
Cottages in an extensive Landscape
ca. 1825-30
watercolor on paper
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

William Henry Hunt
Fishermen's Cottages at Hastings
ca. 1815-25
watercolor on paper
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

David Humphrey
Crowded Body
1984
oil on canvas
Denver Art Museum

David Humphrey
On the Couch
2014
acrylic on canvas
private collection

David Humphrey
Posing
2014
acrylic on canvas
private collection

David Humphrey
Buddies
2016
acrylic on canvas
Portland Museum of Art, Maine

Prudence Heward
Leaves (study for portrait of Barbara)
ca. 1933
oil on panel
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa

Prudence Heward
Sarah Eliot
1945
oil on canvas
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa

Prudence Heward
Au Théâtre
1928
oil on canvas
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Montréal

Prudence Heward
The Farmer's Daughter
1945
oil on canvas
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa

The Fire

Had you died when we were together
I would have wanted nothing of you. 
Now I think of you as dead, it is better.

Often, in the cool early evenings of the spring
when, with the first leaves,
all that is deadly enters the world,
I build a fire for us of pine and apple wood;
repeatedly
the flames flare and diminish
as the night comes on in which
we see one another so clearly –

And in the days we are contented
as formerly 
in the long grass,
in the woods' green doors and shadows.

And you never say
Leave me
since the dead do not like being alone.

– Louise Glück (1975)