Thursday, March 26, 2026

Built

William Henry Fox Talbot
Street Scene, Paris
1843
salted paper print from paper negative
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York


Félix Teynard
Pyramide de Chéops (Grande Pyramide)
ca. 1851-52
salted paper print from paper negative
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Jane Martha St John
Arch of Titus, Rome
ca. 1853-56
albumen silver print
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Richard Phené Spiers
Lanterne de Diogène, Parc de Saint-Cloud
1858
(erected by Napoleon in 1801,
destroyed by the Prussians in 1870)
watercolor on paper
British Museum

Alfred George Stevens
Façade of the Ca' d'Oro, Venice
before 1875
ink and watercolor on paper
British Museum

Walter Sickert
Santa Maria del Carmelo, Venice
ca. 1895-1900
oil on canvas
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Attilio Salemme
Joys of the Architect
1946
oil on canvas
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Charles Sheeler
Western Industrial
1954
tempera on glass
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Nicolas de Staël
Le Pont d'Auteuil
1954
oil on canvas
Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin

Christo (Christo Javacheff)
Yellow Store-Front
1965
painted wood, plexiglas, fabric
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Joel Sternfeld
Lynchburg, Virginia
1974
inkjet print
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

George Segal
Man on Wood Scaffold
1976
plaster and wood
Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York

Michael A. Smith
Toledo
1980
gelatin silver print
Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York

Stephen Shore
Château d'Anet
1981
C-print
Loeb Art Center, Vassar College,
Poughkeepsie, New York

Thomas Struth
Vico dei Monti, Naples
1988
gelatin silver print
Tate Modern, London

Madoka Takagi
123rd Street & St Nicholas Avenue, New York
1989
platinum-palladium print
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Gary Simmons
D.C. Pavilion
2007
oil paint and wax on canvas
Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York

On a High House in Byzantium

On three sides
                    the sea's
broad blue back
shot with light –
                    the sun
that dawn scattered
against wide windows
clings there
                    till dusk.

– from the Greek Anthology, translated by Andrew Miller