Wednesday, June 24, 2026

Visual Preferences (20th Century: 1910)

Eugène Atget
Fleurs
1910
gelatin silver print (printed later)
Fralin Museum of Art, Charlottesville, Virginia

Eugène Atget
61 rue du Maire, Paris
1910
albumen silver print from glass negative
Art Institute of Chicago

Alexandre Benois
Stage Design for ballet Giselle (Act II)
1910
watercolor on paper
McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas

Plinio Colombi
Exhibition of Bern Artists
1910
lithograph (poster)
Kunstbibliothek, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Minya Dièz-Dürhkoop
Professor Lucksch and his Wife
1910
photogravure
Kunstbibliothek, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Eugène Druet
Vaslav Nijinsky in Les Orientales (Ballets Russes)
1910
gelatin silver print
McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas

Frederick Carl Frieseke
Afternoon - The Yellow Room
1910
oil on canvas
Indianapolis Museum of Art

Georges Gaudion
Le Tarn à Gaillac
1910
oil on canvas
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Gaillac

Wassily Kandinsky
Landscape with Factory Chimney
1910
oil on canvas
Guggenheim Museum, New York

Gabriele Münter
Portrait of painter Olga Hartmann
1910
oil on panel
Milwaukee Art Museum

Emil Orlik
Cézanne Exhibition
1910
lithograph (poster)
Kunstbibliothek, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Egon Schiele
Krumau House
1910
watercolor and ink on paper
Dallas Museum of Art

Jan Sluijters
Child's Bedroom
1910
oil on canvas
Kunstmuseum, The Hague

Jan Sluijters
Flower Still Life
1910
oil on canvas
Rijksmuseum, Twenthe

Karl Struss
Interior, Long Island
1910
autochrome
Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas

Max Weber
Surprise
1910
gouache on board
McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas

The Planet on the Table

Ariel was glad he had written his poems. 
They were of a remembered time
Or of something seen that he liked.

Other makings of the sun
Were waste and welter
And the ripe shrub writhed.

His self and the sun were one
And his poems, although makings of his self,
Were no less makings of the sun.

It was not important that they survive.
What mattered was that they should bear
Some lineament or character,

Some affluence, if only half-perceived,
In the poverty of their words,
Of the planet of which they were part.

– Wallace Stevens (1954)