Focus

Pompeo Mariani
Rice Field at Zelata
1896
oil on canvas
Gallerie di Piazza Scala, Milan

Heinrich Kühn
Lotte and Edeltrude
ca. 1908
autochrome
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Lady Ottoline Morrell
By the Pool at Garsington
ca. 1916
gelatin silver print
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Knud Lomberg-Holm
Billboards at Night, Detroit
1924
gelatin silver print
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Edmund Kesting
Sun of the Midi
1928
solarized gelatin silver print
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Emil Nolde
Romantic Landscape with Fortress
ca. 1941-45
watercolor and ink on paper
Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York

Agnes Martin
Untitled
ca. 1955
oil on panel
Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York

Jasper Johns
Tennyson
1959
pastel and charcoal on paper
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC

Frank Lobdell
Fall
1960
oil on canvas
Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York

Jules Olitski
Pink Alert
1966
acrylic on canvas
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Yasuhiro Ishimoto
Tokyo
1967
gelatin silver print
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Robert Motherwell
In Plato's Cave no. 1
1972
acrylic on canvas
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Jerome Liebling
Men's Hat Shop, Jerusalem
1979
C-print
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Anselm Kiefer
Brünnhilde Sleeps
1980
gelatin silver print with gouache and acrylic paint
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Per Kirkeby
Holz IV
1994
oil on canvas
Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York

Alex Katz
West Palm Beach
1997
oil on panel
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh

Carrie Yamaoka
Koolpop #12
2003
resin on mylar
Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York

from Old Age

The seas are quiet when the winds give o'er;

So calm are we when passions are no more.

For then we know how vain it was to boast

Of fleeting things, so certain to be lost. 

Clouds of affection from our younger eyes

Conceal that emptiness which age descries.

– Edmund Waller (1686)