Poses

Parmigianino (Francesco Mazzola)
Seated Model
ca. 1525-26
drawing
(formerly owned by Sir Peter Lely)
British Museum

Kitagawa Utamaro
Mother and Son
c1800
color woodblock print
Kupferstichkabinett,
Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Dresden

Oliver H. Willard
Portrait of a Woman
ca. 1857
salted paper print
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Edward Burne-Jones
Kneeling Model
1865
drawing
(study for painting Le Chant d'Amour)
British Museum

Kenyon Cox
Model Study
ca. 1874-76
drawing
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Edvard Munch
Sketch of Model
1893
pastel on board
Guggenheim Museum, New York

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Femme au tub
1896
lithograph
Portland Art Museum, Oregon

Jan Toorop
The Model
1901
drypoint
British Museum

Pach Brothers Studio (New York)
Johnny Weissmuller
ca. 1924
gelatin silver print
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

Adelaide Perry
Hairbrush and Mirror
ca. 1925
linocut
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

Nickolas Muray
Babe Ruth
1927
gelatin silver print
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

Allen Tupper True
Christmas card - Cross-Country Skiers
ca. 1935
hand-colored lithograph
Archives of American Art, Washington DC

George Hurrell
Marlene Dietrich
1937
gelatin silver print
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

Elmer Bischoff
Study of Man at Table
ca. 1950
charcoal on paper
Archives of American Art, Washington DC

Esther Bubley
Marianne Moore
1953
gelatin silver print
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

Bill Owens
Suburbia - Fourth of July Parade
1972
gelatin silver print
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Salman Toor
The Star
2019
oil on panel
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Sonnet

 

Slide soft, fair Forth, and make a crystal plain;

Cut your white locks, and on your foamy face

Let not a wrinkle be, when you embrace

The boat that Earth's perfections doth contain.

Winds, wonder; and through wondr'ing hold your peace.

Or, if that ye your hearts cannot restrain

From sending sighs, moved by a lover's case,

Sigh, and in her fair hair yourselves enchain;

Or take these sighs which absence makes arise

From mine oppressed breast, and wave the sails,

Or some sweet breath new brought from paradise. 

Floods seem to smile, love o'er the winds prevails,

    And yet huge waves arise; the cause is this:

    The ocean strives with Forth the boat to kiss.

– William Drummond of Hawthornden (ca. 1614)