Wednesday, August 26, 2026

Visual Preferences (20th Century: 1967)

Jim Marshall
Grace and Janis
1967
dye transfer print
Portland Museum of Art, Maine

Enrico Natali
Office Workers
1967
gelatin silver print
Art Institute of Chicago

Emilio Sánchez
Casa Vivienda
1967
lithograph
Fralin Museum of Art, Charlottesville, Virginia

Eduardo Paolozzi
Callas Here
1967
screenprint
Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami

Ellsworth Kelly
Study for White over Blue
1967
acrylic on newsprint
Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California

Leon Golub
Untitled
1967
lithograph
Wichita Art Museum, Kansas

Asger Jorn
Untitled
1967
lithograph
NSU Art Museum, Fort Lauderdale, Florida

Anthony Scornavacca
Untitled
1967
lithograph
NSU Art Museum, Fort Lauderdale, Florida

Henry Moore
Torso
1967
bronze
Henry Moore Foundation, Perry Green, Hertfordshire

Andy Warhol
Marilyn
1967
screenprint
Wichita Art Museum, Kansas

Andy Warhol
Marilyn
1967
screenprint
Art Institute of Chicago

Andy Warhol
Marilyn
1967
screenprint
Art Institute of Chicago

Mark Rothko
Untitled
1967
oil on paper, mounted on canvas
Menil Collection, Houston

Wes Wilson
Grateful Dead at the Fillmore
1967
lithograph (poster)
Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington

Bonnie MacLean
Quicksilver Messenger Service at the Fillmore
1967
lithograph (poster)
Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington

Alice Neel
Charlotte Willard
1967
oil on canvas
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis

One Circumlocution

Sometimes we see astonishingly clearly 
That out-there-now we are already in;
Now that is not what we are here-for really.

All its to-do is bound to re-occur,
Is nothing therefore that we need to say;
How then to make its compromise refer

To what could not be otherwise instead
And has its being as its own to be,
The once-for-all that is not seen nor said?

Tell for the power how to thunderclaps
The graves flew open, the rivers ran up-hill;
Such staged importance is at most perhaps.

Speak well of moonlight on a winding stair,
Of light-boned children under great green oaks:
The wonder, yes, but death should not be there.

One circumlocution as used as any
Depends, it seems, upon the joke of rhyme
For the pure joy; else why should so many

Poems which make us cry direct us to
Ourselves at our least apt, least kind, least true,
Where a blank I loves blankly a blank You?

– W.H. Auden (1949)