Sunday, September 27, 2026

Spectacles

William Eggleston
Oklahoma
ca. 1971-74
dye transfer print
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York


William and Daniel Downey
Sir Henry Irving as Cardinal Wolsey in Henry VIII
1892
Woodburytype print
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (Achenbach Foundation)

Constantin Guys
Review at Madrid
ca. 1850
ink and watercolor on paper
British Museum

André Derain
The Age of Gold
ca. 1938-46
oil on canvas
Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris

Mikhail Dlugach
Poster for the film CEMENT
1933
lithograph
Museum of Modern Art, New York

G.L. Manuel Frères (Paris)
Ballet Scene
ca. 1925
gelatin silver print
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (Achenbach Foundation)

Edmond-Aimé-Florentin Geffroy
Mérope
(tragedy by Voltaire)
ca. 1840
hand-colored engraving
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Larry Dinkin
Turandot
2005
screenprint
Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington

Giles Dunn
The Hafler Trio
1994
inkjet-print (poster)
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Anthony Friedkin
Flower Dancer - C'est La Vie Club - North Hollywood
1972
gelatin silver print
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (Achenbach Foundation)

Bartolomeo degli Erri
St Vincent Ferrer preaching before the Pope
ca. 1460-75
tempera on panel
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Bernardo Ferrándiz Bádenes
The Political Charlatan
1866
oil on canvas
Museo de Málaga

Fergus Greer
Leigh Bowery - Session VI, Look 31
1992
C-print
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Alexandra Exter
Stage Design for Romeo and Juliet
ca. 1921
gouache on paper
Museum of Modern Art, New York

Joseph Heintz the Younger
Orpheus in the Underworld
ca. 1650-60
oil on canvas
Gallerie degli Uffizi, Florence

Larry Fink
Hungarian Debutante Ball, Hotel Pierre NYC
1977
gelatin silver print
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Jeanne-Rosalie Desarnaud-Charpentier
Vanity Chair
ca. 1819
beechwood, gilt-bronze, crystal, glass, silk
Musée du Louvre

from The Blessed Damozel

'We two,' she said, 'will seek the groves
    Where the lady Mary is, 
With her five handmaidens, whose names
    Are five sweet symphonies,
Cecily, Gertrude, Magdalen,
    Margaret and Rosalyn.'

– Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882)