Allies

Wyndham Lewis
A Reading of Ovid (Tyros)
1920-21
oil on canvas
Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh

Josse Lieferinxe
The Visitation
ca. 1497-1508
oil on panel
Musée du Louvre

Filippino Lippi
Study of Draped Figures in Conversation
before 1504
drawing
British Museum

Johann Heinrich Lips
Priest and Cavalier embracing
ca. 1797
drawing
British Museum

Robert MacBryde
Two Women Sewing
1953
oil on canvas
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh

Alessandro Magnasco
Two Monks Walking
before 1749
drawing
British Museum

Master of the Baroncelli Portraits (Netherlandish painter)
Pierantonio Bandini Baroncelli and his wife Maria Bonciani
ca. 1489
oil on panels
Gallerie degli Uffizi, Florence

Elaine Mayes
Jerry and Sunshine, ages 24 and 20,
Golden Gate Park, San Francisco
1968
gelatin silver print
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Hans Memling
Tommaso di Folco Portinari and Maria Portinari
ca. 1470
oil on panels
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Henry Moore
Standing Man and Woman
1981
bronze
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri

Berthe Morisot
The Sisters
1869
oil on canvas
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Mark Morrisroe
Untitled
ca. 1987
gelatin silver print 
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Francesco Mosca
Atalanta and Meleager
ca. 1564-65
marble
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri

François-Joseph Navez
Saintes Femmes
méditant auprès des instruments de la Passion
ca. 1822
oil on canvas
Musée du Louvre

Lil Neilson
Lil Neilson and Reet Guenigault eating Mussels
ca. 1962-63
oil on panel
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh

Gordon Parks
Raiding Detectives, Chicago
1957
C-print
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Charles Parrocel
Heads of Soldiers
ca. 1733-35
drawing
British Museum

Personal Talk 

I am not one who much or oft delight

    To season my fireside with personal talk –

    Of friends, who live within an easy walk,

Or neighbours, daily, weekly, in my sight:

And, for my chance-acquaintance, ladies bright,

    Sons, mothers, maidens withering on the stalk,

    These all wear out of me, like forms, with chalk

Painted on rich men's floors, for one feast-night.

Better than such discourse doth silence long,

    Long, barren silence, square with my desire;

To sit without emotion, hope, or aim,

    In the loved presence of my cottage-fire,

And listen to the flapping of the flame,

Or kettle whispering its faint undersong.

– William Wordsworth (1807)