Wednesday, March 26, 2025

Frink

Elisabeth Frink
Horse Head
1958
drawing
British Museum


Elisabeth Frink
Torso
1958
drawing
British Museum

Elisabeth Frink
Animal Head
1962
drawing
British Museum

Elisabeth Frink
Judas Head
1964
drawing
British Museum

Elisabeth Frink
Head II
1965
drawing
British Museum

Elisabeth Frink
The Odyssey: Nausicaa Episode
1974
lithograph
British Museum

Elisabeth Frink
Figure on Horseback
1975
drawing
British Museum

Elisabeth Frink
Head of Sir John Pope-Hennessy
"the prototypical cultural administrator"
1975
bronze
British Museum

Elisabeth Frink
Tilted Man
ca. 1976
drawing
British Museum

Elisabeth Frink
Walking Man
ca. 1976
drawing
British Museum

Elisabeth Frink
Seated Man
1981
drawing
British Museum

Elisabeth Frink
Antony and Cleopatra
(Helen Mirren and Michael Gambon)
1982
color etching
British Museum

Elisabeth Frink
Riace I
1986
bronze, partly painted
Tate Modern, London

Elisabeth Frink
Head
1986
drawing
British Museum

Elisabeth Frink
Children of the Gods: Ganymede
1988
etching and aquatint
British Museum

Elisabeth Frink
Children of the Gods: Jason
1988
etching and aquatint
British Museum

Elisabeth Frink
Children of the Gods: Laos and Oedipus
1988
etching and aquatint
British Museum

Elisabeth Frink
Horse Head
1990
watercolor, charcoal and pastel on paper
British Museum

from Entrance from Sleep
 
To wake into the afternoon for you
Is a familiar gesture. Upon the eye,
As dawn to the shade-embroidered fountain brings
The young fern's wisdom, the first world takes shape
Where shadow and light on a white ceiling meet;
And the late garden builds its trellises
And the machinery of light begins.

To wake is to become what one first sees.
So, waking upon beaches, one is a shell,
A tide; or, afternoons in an apartment
Above a garden, levels of shade and sun
Through which you wade like eyes in tapestries
That wake only when struck by light and take
Advantage of this grace to change our sleep 

Or plant an image of our waking.

– James Merrill (1951)