Friday, August 29, 2025

Expectedness (Sixties)

Bob Thompson
Enchanted Rider
1961
oil on canvas
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC


Bob Thompson
An Allegory
1964
oil on linen
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Bob Thompson
Descent from the Cross
1963
oil on canvas
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Arnold Belkin
In Resplendent Places
1968
lithograph
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Arnold Belkin
Moses de Leon
1969
lithograph
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Gertrude Hermes
Bees
1963
color linocut
British Museum

Elaine Lustig Cohen
Boris Pasternak - I Remember
1960
lithograph (dust jacket)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Elaine Lustig Cohen
The Hebrew Bible, Jewish Museum, New York
1963
offset-lithograph (exhibition poster)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Jack Beal
Still Life with Plant and Mirrors
1965
oil on canvas
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Galina Bitt
Kinetische Zeichnung
1965
screenprint
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC

Cristóbal Balenciaga
Hat
1964
dyed cockerel feathers mounted on rayon taffeta
Museo Cristóbal Balenciaga, Getaria, Spain

William Turnbull
Leaves, Blue
ca. 1967
lithograph
Fralin Museum of Art, Charlottesville, Virginia

Bridget Riley
Late Morning
1967-68
acrylic on canvas
Tate Modern, London

Ruth Gikow
The Kitchen
1960
oil on canvas
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Corneille (Guillaume Cornelis van Beverloo)
L'Heure Matinale
1967
lithograph
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane

Pablo Picasso
Dans l'Atelier
1965
aquatint and drypoint
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC

David Plowden
Delaware and Hudson Railroad
Whitehall, New York

1965
gelatin silver print
Art Institute of Chicago

DRYDEN, JOHN (1630-1700) – The establisher and master of the stopped heroic couplet with variations of triplets and Alexandrines; the last great writer of dramatic blank verse, after he had given up the couplet for that use; master also of any other metre – the stopped heroic quatrain, lyrics of various forms, etc. – that he chose to try.  A deliberate student of prosody, on which he had intended to leave a treatise, but did not. 

COWPER, WILLIAM (1731-1800) – One of the first to protest, definitely and by name, against the "mechanic art" of Pope's couplet.  He himself returned to Dryden for that metre; but practised very largely in blank verse, and wrote lyrics with great sweetness, a fairly varied command of metre, and, in "Boadicea," "The Castaway," and some of his hymns, no small intensity of tone and cry.  His chief shortcoming, a preference of elision to substitution.  

– George Saintsbury, from Historical Manual of English Prosody (1910)