Sunday, June 21, 2026

Visual Preferences (20th Century: 1906)

Emil Carlsen
Study in Grey
1906
oil on canvas
Dallas Museum of Art

Waldemar Deonna
Italian Youth, Villa Falconieri, Frascati
1906
gelatin bromide print
Cabinet d'Arts Graphiques
des Musées d'Art et d'Histoire, Genève

André Derain
Fishing Boats at l'Estaque
1906
oil on canvas
Dallas Museum of Art

Minya Dièz-Dürhkoop
Study of a Woman
1906
photogravure
Kunstbibliothek, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Léon Frédéric
Sunday Morning before Mass
1906
oil on canvas
Museum of Fine Arts, Ghent

Achille Granchi-Taylor
Fête des Filets Bleus, Concarneau
1906
lithograph (poster)
Kunstbibliothek, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Childe Hassam
Duck Island
1906
oil on canvas
Dallas Museum of Art

Edwin Hale Lincoln
Malva rotundifolia
1906
platinum print
Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts

Paula Modersohn-Becker
Still Life with Goldfish Bowl
1906
oil on board
Von der Heydt Museum, Wuppertal

Edvard Munch
Portrait of physicist Felix Auerbach
1906
oil on canvas
Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam

Rudolf Münger
Coat of Arms - Küpfer of Bern
1906
watercolor on paper (study for stained glass)
Graphische Sammlung, Zentralbibliothek Zürich

Pablo Picasso
La Jeune Fille à la Chèvre
1906
oil on canvas
Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia

Rodo (August de Niederhäusern)
Adam and Eve
1906
stone
Musées d'Art et d'Histoire, Genève

Théo van Rysselberghe
Harbor of Veere
1906
oil on canvas
Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands

Jan Sluijters
Women Kissing
1906
oil on canvas
Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam

Edward Steichen (designer)
Photo-Secession
1906
rotogravure (poster)
Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas

from St. Armorer's Church from the Outside 

St. Armorer's was once an immense success.
It rose loftily and stood massively; and to lie
In its church-yard, in the province of St. Armorer's,
Fixed one for good in geranium-colored day.

What is left has the foreign smell of plaster,
The closed-in smell of hay. A sumac grows
On the altar, growing toward the lights, inside.
Reverberations leak and lack among holes . . .

Its chapel rises from Terre Ensevelie,
An ember yes among its cindery noes,
His own: a chapel of breath, an appearance made
For a sign of meaning in the meaningless,

No radiance of dead blaze, but something seen
In a mystic eye, no sign of life but life,
Itself, the presence of the intelligible
In that which is created as its symbol.

It is like a new account of everything old,
Matisse of Vence and a great deal more than that,
A new-colored sun, say, that will soon change forms
And spread hallucinations on every leaf.

– Wallace Stevens (1954)