Seasons

Grace Hartigan
New England, October
1957
oil on canvas
 Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York 

Anonymous French Sculptor
Term with Personification of Spring
ca. 1685-1700
marble
Musée du Louvre

Anonymous Printmaker after Heinrich Aldegrever
Portrait of preacher Jan van Leiden
ca. 1530-40
hand-colored woodcut
British Museum

Diane Arbus
Charlie Lucas with giant Buck Nolan,
lady midget Margharita and others, Hubert's Museum, N.Y.C.
1959
gelatin silver print
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Grace Hartigan
Bray
1958
oil on canvas
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri

Anonymous French Sculptor
Term with Personification of Summer
ca. 1685-1700
marble
Musée du Louvre

Currier & Ives (New York)
John Brown
ca. 1859
hand-colored lithograph
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

Diane Arbus
Masked Boy with Friends, Coney Island N.Y.
1957
gelatin silver print
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Grace Hartigan
Essex and Hester I
1958
oil on canvas
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Anonymous French Sculptor
Term with Personification of Autumn
ca. 1685-1700
marble
Musée du Louvre

Paulus van Somer II
Portrait of Prince Rupert
ca. 1675
mezzotint
British Museum

Diane Arbus
Mr and Mrs Santa Claus in their living room, Albion N.Y.
1964
gelatin silver print
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Grace Hartigan
Summer Street
1956
oil on canvas
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Anonymous French Sculptor
Term with Personification of Winter
ca. 1685-1700
marble
Musée du Louvre

Diane Arbus
Untitled (14)
ca. 1970-71
gelatin silver print
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Walter Alfred Cox after Henry Tenré
Sweet Carnations
1908
mezzotint
British Museum

Grace Hartigan
When the Raven was White
1969
oil on canvas
Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York

The Vision of Beulah

Thou perceivest the flowers put forth their precious odours,

And none can tell how from so small a centre comes such sweets,

Forgetting that within that centre Eternity expands

Its ever-during doors that Og and Anak fiercely guard.

First, e'er the morning breaks, joy opens in the flowery bosoms,

Joy even to tears, which the Sun rising dries; first the wild thyme

And meadow-sweet, downy and soft, waving among the reeds,

Light springing on the air, lead the sweet dance: they wake

The honeysuckle sleeping on the oak; the flaunting beauty

Revels along upon the wind; the white-thorn, lovely may,

Opens her many lovely eyes listening; the rose still sleeps,

None dare to wake her; soon she bursts her crimson-curtained bed

And comes forth in the majesty of beauty; every flower,

The pink, the jessamine, the wall-flower, the carnation,

The jonquil, the mild lily, opes her heavens; every tree

And flower and herb soon fill the air with an innumerable dance,

Yet all in order sweet and lovely.  Men are sick with love.

– William Blake, from Milton (1808)