Groups - I

Max Ernst
Au Rendez-Vous des Amis
1922
oil on canvas
Museum Ludwig, Cologne

Barent Fabritius
St Peter in the House of Cornelius
(portrait historié of the painter's family)
1653
oil on canvas
Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum, Braunschweig

Lovis Corinth
Die Logenbrüder
1898-99
oil on canvas
Lenbachhaus, Munich

Johann Gottfried Schadow
Eleven Portrait Heads
ca. 1800-1803
drawing
Kupferstichkabinett,Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Anders Kristensson
Truck Drivers, Viscariagruvan, Kiruna
1992
C-print
Göteborgs Konstmuseum, Sweden

Nils Forsberg
Acrobat Family before the Circus Manager
1878
oil on canvas
Göteborgs Konstmuseum, Sweden

Cornelis de Vos
Family Portrait
ca. 1617-18
oil on canvas
Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum, Braunschweig

Jacob Jordaens
Self Portrait (at left, playing lute) 
with the artist's wife Catharina van Noort and her Family
ca. 1616
oil on canvas
Museumslandschaft Hessen Kassel

R.B. Kitaj
Casting
1967
oil on canvas
Museum Ludwig, Cologne

Abraham van Strij
Interior with the Family of Hendrik Weymans
1816
oil on panel
Dordrechts Museum

Wilhelm Lindenschmit the Elder
The Artist with his Family
1836
oil on canvas
Landesmuseum, Mainz

Peder Severin Krøyer
Portrait of arts patron Heinrich Hirschsprung with his Family
1881
oil on canvas
Hirschsprung Collection, Copenhagen

Gerhard Keil
Gymnasts
1939
oil on canvas
Galerie Neue Meister (Albertinum), Dresden

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
Henri IV receiving the Spanish Ambassador
1817
oil on canvas
Musée du Petit Palais, Paris

Louis Faurer
Opening of Cleopatra (film) at Palace Theater, NYC
1963
gelatin silver print
Moderna Museet, Stockholm

Cornelis Bisschop
Portrait of the Weinhändlers Family
ca. 1670
oil on canvas
Museumslandschaft Hessen Kassel

"He drew out a little pouch that he carried beneath his arm and opened it to reveal a prodigious display of precious stones: pearls the size of small nuts, perfectly spherical and glistening the purest white; emeralds and sapphires, the former as green as grass in springtime, their depths glowing with a luster as clear and soft as olive oil, the latter exactly the color of the sea in the shadow of a tall cliff, sparkling on the surface and a deep violet beneath.  In short, all these gems, with their blend of scintillating hues, were a sight to gladden the eye.  But one glance was enough." 

– Heliodorus, from The Aethiopica, or, Theagenes and Charikleia (3rd or 4th century AD), translated from Greek by J.R. Morgan (1989)

Irving Penn

Irving Penn
9 Vogue Photographers
1946
gelatin silver print
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

Irving Penn
12 Most-Photographed Models
1947
gelatin silver print
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

Irving Penn
Leonard Bernstein
1947
gelatin silver print
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

Irving Penn
Lillian Hellman
1947
gelatin silver print
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

Irving Penn
Salvador Dalí
1947
gelatin silver print
Moderna Museet, Stockholm

Irving Penn
Arthur Rubinstein
1948
gelatin silver print
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

Irving Penn
Balthus, Paris
1948
gelatin silver print
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh

Irving Penn
Charles Sheeler
1948
gelatin silver print
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

Irving Penn
George Grosz
1948
gelatin silver print
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

Irving Penn
Mrs William Rhinelander Stewart
1948
gelatin silver print
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

Irving Penn
Carson McCullers
1950
gelatin silver print
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

Irving Penn
T.S. Eliot
1950
gelatin silver print
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

Irving Penn
Rudolf Nureyev
1965
gelatin silver print
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

Irving Penn
John Updike
1970
gelatin silver print
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

Irving Penn
Lee Krasner
1972
gelatin silver print
Archives of American Art, Washington DC

Irving Penn
5 Whitney Artists
2002
gelatin silver print
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Irving Penn
Robert Rauschenberg
2005
gelatin silver print
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

The Fifth Ode

What young Raw Muisted Beau Bred at his Glass

now wilt thou on a Rose's Bed Carress

who niest to thy white Breasts wilt thow intice

with hair unsnooded and without thy Stays

O Bonny Lass wi' thy Sweet Landart Air

how will thy fikle humour gie him care

when e'er thou takes the fling strings, like the wind

with Jaws the Ocean – thou'lt disturb his Mind

when thou looks smirky kind and claps his cheek

to poor friends then he'll hardly look or speak

the Coof belivest-na but Right soon he'll find

thee Light as Cork and wavring as the Wind

on that slid place where I 'maist brake my Bains

to be a warning I Set up two Stains

that nane may venture there as I hae done

unless wi' frosted Nails he Clink his Shoon.

– Horace (65-8 BC), translated by Allan Ramsay (ca. 1720)

Streetwear - II

Uno Falkengren
Untitled
ca. 1907
gelatin silver print
Moderna Museet, Stockholm

Crispin Gurholt
Untitled
1994
watercolor on paper
Nordnorsk Kunstmuseum, Tromsø

Natalia Goncharova
The Orange Seller
1916
oil on canvas
Museum Ludwig, Cologne

William Hamilton
Marie-Antoinette leaving the Conciergerie
ca. 1795
drawing
Morgan Library, New York

Don Young
Two Norwegian Girls
1962
gelatin silver print
Nasjonalmuseet, Oslo

Félix Vallotton
New Year's Day
1896
woodcut
Nasjonalmuseet, Oslo

Christer Strömholm
Collector and curator Pontus Hultén
with sculptor Jean Tinguely
1959
gelatin silver print
Moderna Museet, Stockholm

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Five Women in the Street
1913
oil on canvas
Museum Ludwig, Cologne

Arno Fischer
Berlin
1958
gelatin silver print
Museum Ludwig, Cologne

Jean-Philippe Charbonnier
Place d'Italie, Paris
1974
gelatin silver print
Moderna Museet, Stockholm

Guillaume Berggren
Portrait of a Turkish Lady
ca. 1875
albumen silver print
Moderna Museet, Stockholm

Peter Cornelius
Rue Mouffetard, Paris
ca. 1957
C-print
Museum Folkwang, Essen

Bill Brandt
Painter Francis Bacon, Primrose Hill, London
1963
gelatin silver print
Moderna Museet, Stockholm

Gunnar Sundgren
Untitled (Moody Men)
ca. 1935
gelatin silver print
Moderna Museet, Stockholm

Jean Béraud
Dismissal at Lycée Condorcet, Paris
ca. 1903
oil on panel
Musée Carnavalet, Paris

Elizabeth Lennard
Acrobatic Suicides
1975
hand-colored gelatin silver print
Moderna Museet, Stockholm

When Thermouthis reached the top of the hill, he sat down on a rock to rest and wait for nightfall, for they had agreed to enter the village after dark and start probing for information about Thyamis.  He kept a constant watch for Knemon, from whatever direction he might appear, for he was plotting mischief against him.  There still lingered in his mind the suspicion that it was Knemon who had killed Thisbe, and he was considering how he might dispose of him; then, with Knemon out of the way, he had deranged visions of attacking Theagenes and Charikleia too.  However, Knemon was nowhere to be seen, and it was now the dead of night.  Thermouthis lay down to sleep, but the sleep he slept was the final sleep, the brazen sleep of death, for he was bitten by a viper.  Perhaps it was destiny's will that his life should end in a way so befitting his character. 

– Heliodorus, from The Aethiopica, or, Theagenes and Charikleia (3rd or 4th century AD), translated from Greek by J.R. Morgan (1989)

Louise Dahl-Wolfe

Louise Dahl-Wolfe
Alice Rohrer
ca. 1930
gelatin silver print
New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe

Louise Dahl-Wolfe
Jo and Edward Hopper
1933
gelatin silver print
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Louise Dahl-Wolfe
William Edmondson
1937
gelatin silver print
Archives of American Art, Washington DC

Louise Dahl-Wolfe
William Edmondson
1937
gelatin silver print
Archives of American Art, Washington DC

Louise Dahl-Wolfe
Dorothy Liebes in her Powell Street Studio, San Francisco
1938
gelatin silver print
Cooper-Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum, New York

Louise Dahl-Wolfe
Dorothy Liebes with her Schiaparelli panel
1938
gelatin silver print
Cooper-Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum, New York

Louise Dahl-Wolfe
Bette Davis
1938
gelatin silver print
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

Louise Dahl-Wolfe
Carole Lombard
1938
gelatin silver print
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

Louise Dahl-Wolfe
Mae West
1940
gelatin silver print
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

Louise Dahl-Wolfe
Katharine Cornell
1941
gelatin silver print
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

Louise Dahl-Wolfe
Diana Vreeland
1941
gelatin silver print
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

Louise Dahl-Wolfe
Spencer Tracy
1942
gelatin silver print
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

Louise Dahl-Wolfe
5000 Danish Seamen
1943
photo-lithograph (poster)
National Museum of American History, Washington DC

Louise Dahl-Wolfe
5000 Danish Seamen
1943
photo-lithograph (poster)
National Museum of American History, Washington DC

Louise Dahl-Wolfe
Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne
1946
gelatin silver print
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

Louise Dahl-Wolfe
Portrait of a Woman
ca. 1948
gelatin silver print
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC

The Fifth Ode

What slender Youth bedewed with liquid odours

Courts thee on Roses in some pleasant Cave,

        Pyrrha for whom bind'st thou

        In wreaths thy golden Hair,

Plain in thy neatness? O how oft shall he

On Faith and changed Gods complain: and Seas

        Rough with black winds and storms

        Unwonted shall admire:

Who now enjoys thee credulous, all Gold,

Who always vacant, always amiable 

        Hopes thee of flattering gales

        Unmindful. Hapless they

To whom thou untried seem'st fair. Me in my vowed

Picture the sacred wall declares t' have hung

        My dank and dropping weeds

        To the stern God of Sea.

– Horace (65-8 BC), translated by John Milton (1673)