Yoked

Amédée Ozenfant
Grotto
1945
oil on canvas
Phillips Collection, Washington DC

Samuel Palmer
Pan came, Arcadian Tetrarch ever Good
(print study for illustration to Virgil's Eclogues)
ca. 1876
drawing
British Museum

Neroccio de' Landi
Construction of a Church
ca. 1485
tempera on panel
Museo Collezione Gianfranco Luzzetti, Grosseto

Diane Arbus
Girl in her Circus Costume, Md.
1970
gelatin silver print
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Amédée Ozenfant
Landscape (Bordeaux II)
1918
oil on canvas
Art Institute of Chicago

Samuel Palmer
Thy very Cradle Quickens
(print study for illustration to Virgil's Eclogues)
ca. 1876
drawing
British Museum

Neroccio de' Landi
Virgin and Child
1475-76
tempera and gold on panel
Accademia Carrara, Bergamo

Diane Arbus
Child in a Beret, N.Y.C.
1962
gelatin silver print
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Amédée Ozenfant
Still Life with Carafe, Bottle and Guitar
1919
oil on canvas
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Samuel Palmer
'Tis Gentle Phillis
(print study for illustration to Virgil's Eclogues)
ca. 1876
drawing
British Museum

Neroccio de' Landi
Story of St Benedict
ca. 1473
tempera on panel (predella fragment)
Gallerie degli Uffizi, Florence

Diane Arbus
Flora Knapp Dickinson
Honorary Regent of the Washington Heights Chapter
of the Daughters of the American Revolution, N.Y.C.
1960
gelatin silver print
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Amédée Ozenfant
Guitar and Bottles
1920
oil on canvas
Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice

Samuel Palmer
Man yoking an Ox
ca. 1831-32
drawing
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Neroccio de' Landi
Story of St Benedict
ca. 1473
tempera on panel (predella fragment)
Gallerie degli Uffizi, Florence

Diane Arbus
Movie Theater Usher
standing by the Box Office, N.Y.C.
1956
gelatin silver print
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Amédée Ozenfant
The Sleeping Canyon
1945-46
oil on canvas
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis

from Frost at Midnight

'Tis calm indeed! so calm, that it disturbs

And vexes meditation with its strange

And extreme silentness. Sea, hill, and wood,

This populous village! Sea, and hill, and wood,

With all the numberless goings-on of life,

Inaudible as dreams! the thin blue flame

Lies on my low-burnt fire, and quivers not;

Only that film, which fluttered on the grate,

Still flutters there, the sole unquiet thing.

Methinks, its motion in this hush of nature

Gives it dim sympathies with me who live,

Making it a companionable form

Whose puny flaps and freaks the idling Spirit

By its own moods interprets, everywhere

Echo or mirror seeking itself,

And makes a toy of Thought.

– Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1798)