Visual Preferences (20th Century: 1917)

David Young Cameron
Old Museum, Beauvais
1917
etching and drypoint
Art Institute of Chicago

James Daugherty
The Ships Are Coming
1917
lithograph (poster)
Wichita Art Museu, Kansas

Charles Demuth
Acrobats in Red
1917
watercolor on paper
Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia

Theo van Doesburg
Composition IX, Opus 18
1917
oil on canvas
Kunstmuseum, The Hague

Gordon Grant
Eyes for the Navy
1917
lithograph (poster)
Wichita Art Museum,Kansas

Adrianus Johannes Grootens
Cubist Still Life
1917
oil on canvas
Kunstmuseum, The Hague

Ludwig Hohlwein
The Great War by Hanns von Zobeltitz
1917
lithograph (poster advertising book)
Kunstbibliothek, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Vilmos Huszár
Composition with White Head
1917
encaustic on panel
Kunstmuseum, The Hague

Alexei Jawlensky
Niobe
(series, Mystical Heads)
1917
encaustic on board
McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas

Willem van Konijnenburg
Portrait of Peter Spaan
1917
oil on panel
Kunstmuseum, The Hague

Bart van der Leck
Composition no. 8
1917
oil on canvas
Kunstmuseum, The Hague

Otto Carl Lendecke
The New Frock
1917
watercolor on paper
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Henri Matisse
Head of a Girl
1917
oil on panel
Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia

Martin Mower after Anonymous Photographer
Portrait of Isabella Stewart Gardner
1917
oil on canvas
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

Jules Pascin
Figures on Beach, Coney Island
1917
watercolor and ink on paper
Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia

Adolphe Valette
Self Portrait
1917
oil on canvas
Manchester Art Gallery

from Lullaby

Let your last thinks all be thanks:

praise your parents who gave you

a Super-Ego of strength

that saves you so much bother, 

digit friends and dear them all,

then pay fair attribution

to your age, to having been

born when you were. In boyhood

you were permitted to meet 

beautiful old contraptions,

soon to be banished from earth,

saddle-tank loks, beam-engines

and over-shot waterwheels. 

– W.H. Auden (1972)