Discovery

Pierre Bonnard
Work Table
1926
oil on canvas
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Thomas Hart Benton
Trial by Jury
1964
oil on canvas
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri

Alessandro Allori
Self Portrait
ca. 1555
oil on panel
Gallerie degli Uffizi, Florence

Pierre Alechinsky
Windows
1977
lithograph and etching
Loeb Art Center, Vassar College,
Poughkeepsie, New York

Pierre Bonnard
The Picnic
ca. 1930
oil on canvas (sketch)
Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin

Thomas Hart Benton
Lost Hunting Ground
ca. 1927-28
oil on canvas
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art,
Kansas City, Missouri

Alessandro Allori
Portrait of Ortensia de' Bardi da Montauto
1559
oil on panel
Gallerie degli Uffizi, Florence

Pierre Alechinsky
Windows
1977
lithograph and etching
Loeb Art Center, Vassar College,
Poughkeepsie, New York

Pierre Bonnard
The Letter
ca. 1906
oil on canvas
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Thomas Hart Benton
Discovery
1920
oil on canvas
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art,
Kansas City, Missouri

Alessandro Allori
Portrait of Isabella de' Medici
ca. 1555-60
oil on panel
Galleria Palatina, Florence

Pierre Alechinsky
Verrerie allégorique
1981
oil on paper
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Pierre Bonnard
Stairs in the Artist's Garden
ca. 1942-44
oil on canvas
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Thomas Hart Benton
Bootleggers
1927
oil, acrylic and tempera on canvas
Reynolda House Museum of American Art
Winston-Salem, North Carolina

Alessandro Allori
Portrait of a Woman
ca. 1580-90
oil on canvas
Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts

Pierre Alechinsky
Colloque écologique
1972
acrylic on paper
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Pierre Bonnard
Cherries
ca. 1910
oil on canvas
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

To Glaukos, and to Nereus

To Ino's son Melikertes

To the Deep-Sea-Lord, son of Kronos

And the gods of Samothrace

I, Lucilius, saved from the sea

Give this hair cut from my head:

I've nothing else left to offer.

– from the Greek Anthology, translated by Peter Jay