Saturday, January 24, 2026

Mixed Thirties

Georgia O'Keeffe
Jack in the Pulpit no. 4
1930
oil on canvas
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC


Theodore Roszak
Recording Sound
1932
painted plaster relief
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Man Ray
Lee Miller
ca. 1930
gelatin silver print
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

George Platt Lynes
Glenway Wescott
ca. 1934
gelatin silver print
Loeb Art Center, Vassar College,
Poughkeepsie, New York

Pablo Picasso
Femme étendue au soleil sur la plage
1932
oil on canvas
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh

Mark Rothko
Interior
1936
oil on panel
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Walker Evans
Portrait of artist Peggy Bacon
1934
gelatin silver print
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Anton Refregier
Laborer building the Golden Gate Bridge
1933
drawing
(sketch for Post Office mural, San Francisco)
Loeb Art Center, Vassar College,
Poughkeepsie, New Yor
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Kurt Schwitters
Ohne Titel (Das Schöne Bildnis)
1930
collage on board
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Albert Renger-Patzsch
Beech Wood in Autumn
1936
gelatin silver print
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Konstantin Somov
Daphnis and Chloe
1934
watercolor and gouache on paper
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Madeline Shiff
Wiltz at Work
1932
oil on canvas
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Brassaï
Street Fair - Boulevard Saint-Jacques, Paris
1931
gelatin silver print
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Humphrey Spender
Women in a Public Washhouse, Glasgow
1939
gelatin silver print
Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh

August Sander
Footpath in the Siebengebirge
ca. 1934
gelatin silver print
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Charles Haslewood Shannon
Recollections of Oscar Wilde
ca. 1932
drawing
(study for bookbinding)
British Museum

Theodora Roscoe
Portrait of Harry Lauder
1936
oil on board
Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh

    Of all the delusions wherewith he [the Devil] deceives mortality, there is not any that puzzleth me more than the Legerdemain of Changelings.  I do not credit those transformations of reasonable creatures into beasts, or that the Devil hath a power to transpeciate a man into a horse, who tempted Christ (as a trial of his Divinity) to convert but stones into bread.  I could believe that Spirits use with man the act of carnality, and that in both sexes.  I conceive they may assume, steal, or contrive a body, wherein there may be action enough to content decrepit lust, without a possibility of generation.  And therefore that opinion that Antichrist should be born of the Tribe of Dan by conjunction with the Devil is ridiculous.  

– Sir Thomas Browne, from Religio Medici (1642)