Solos

Victor Landweber
Ansco Panda
1983
C-print
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Hiram Powers
Loulie's Hand
1851
marble
Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts

Robert Kulicke
Dollar Bill on Dark Background
1976
oil on board
Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York

Henri Matisse
La Table au Café
ca. 1899
oil on canvas
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Roman Empire
Spoon
AD 250-300
silver
Morgan Library, New York

Eric Ravilious
Ship's Screw on Railway Truck
1940
watercolor and graphite on paper
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Anne Redpath
Posy
before 1965
oil on canvas
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh

Amanda Means
Lightbulb #3
1998
gelatin silver print
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Melissa Ann Pinney
Kiddy Pool - Onekama, Michigan
1990
C-print
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Ellsworth Kelly
Green Curve I
1969
oil on canvas
Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York

Roy Lichtenstein
Mirror I
1976
painted bronze
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Raphaelle Peale
Venus rising from the Sea: A Deception
ca. 1822
oil on canvas
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri

Bernard Perrot
Wig Stand
ca. 1700-1715
blown glass
Musée du Louvre

Alessandro Mendini
Armchair
1978
painted wood and upholstery
Museum of Modern Art, New York

Vico Magistretti for Oluce (Italy)
Atollo Table Lamp
1977
aluminum and polyurethane
Museum of Modern Art, New York

Robert Mapplethorpe
Leaf
1989
gelatin silver print
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh

Alexander Ross
Untitled
2004
oil on canvas
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri

So, insecure, he loves and love

Is insecure, gives less than he expects.

He knows not if it be seed in time to display

Luxuriantly in a wonderful fructification

Or whether it be but a degenerate remnant

Of something immense in the past but now

Surviving only as the infectiousness of disease

Or in the malicious caricature of drunkenness;

Its end glossed over by the careless but known long

To finer perceptions of the mad and ill.

– W.H. Auden (1929)