Sunday, August 31, 2025

Expectedness (Sixties)

Jacob Lawrence
Dreams no. 2
1965
tempera on board
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC


James Henry Daugherty
Tensions and Rhythms
1968-69
oil on linen
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Sam Byrne
Dust Storm approaching Broken Hill
ca. 1960-65
enamel on board
Heide Museum of Modern Art, Bulleen, Australia

Arthur Osver
The Voyage
1961
oil paint and collage on canvas
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Jack Humphrey
Perry Point Ferry
1960
oil on canvas
New Brunswick Museum, Saint John

Perry Nichols
The Desk-Top of Jake Hamon
1966
oil on canvas
Dallas Museum of Art

John Hultberg
Monhegan Dock
1961
oil on canvas
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

John Hultberg
Plain with Flag
ca. 1960
gouache on board
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

John Fox
Atelier Rouge
ca. 1965
oil on canvas
Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Fredericton, New Brunswick

Donald Friend
Mountebanks
1965
lithograph
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Hassel Smith
Mousehole, Cornwall
1962
oil on canvas
Phoenix Art Museum, Arizona

Harry Soviak
Famille Noire
1968
lithograph
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Jan Forsberg
Gust of Wind
1963
etching and aquatint
Art Institute of Chicago

Danny Lyon
Robert Frank and Mary Frank
1969
gelatin silver print
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

Helen Lessore
Portrait of art collector David Wilkie
1967
oil on canvas
Tate Modern, London

Eva Kubbos
The Sudden Wings of Blue
1962
color linocut
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

Eikoh Hosoe
Kamaitachi #26
1963
gelatin silver print
National Museum of Asian Art, Washington DC

POE, EDGAR (1809-1849) – The greatest master of original prosodic effect that the United States have produced, and an instinctively and generally right (though, in detail, hasty, ill-informed, and crude) essayist on points of prosodic doctrine.  Produced little, and that little not always equal; but at his best an unsurpassable master of music in verse and phrase. 

PRAED, WINTHROP MACKWORTH (1802-1839) – An early nineteenth-century Prior.  Not incapable of serious verse, and hardly surpassed in laughter.  His greatest triumph, the adaptation of the three-foot anapest, alternately hypercatalectic and acatalectic or exact, which had been a ballad-burlesque metre as early as Gay, had been partly ensouled by Byron in one piece, but was made his own by Praed, and handed down by him to Mr. Swinburne to be yet further sublimated. 

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