Wednesday, April 15, 2026

Maesta

Morton Schamberg
Regena
1917
gelatin silver print
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York


Monogrammist I.Q.V. after Giulio Romano
St John the Evangelist and St Anthony Abbot
(School of Fontainebleau)
ca. 1540-45
etching
British Museum

Sean Scully
Landline Tappan
2015
oil on aluminum
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri

Pavel Tchelitchew
Portrait Head
1926
gouache on paper
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC

Morton Schamberg
Regena
1912
gelatin silver print
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Monogrammist I.Q.V. after Francesco Primaticcio
Rebecca and Eliezer at the Well
(copy of fresco at Fontainebleau)
ca. 1541-45
etching
British Museum

Sean Scully
One One Zero Nine Red
2009
oil on linen
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Pavel Tchelitchew
Figures in a Landscape
1935
ink and wash on paper
Art Institute of Chicago

Morton Schamberg
Jeanne
1917
gelatin silver print
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Monogrammist G.Z. (German printmaker)
Decorated Border for Title-Page to Exemplorum by Sabellieus
1518
woodcut and letterpress
(printed by Matthias Schürer in Strasbourg)
British Museum

Sean Scully
Maesta
1983
oil on canvas
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Pavel Tchelitchew
Untitled
1948
ink and wash on paper
Art Institute of Chicago

Morton Schamberg
Jeanne
1912
gelatin silver print
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Monogrammist G.Z. (German printmaker)
Decorated Border for Title-Page to Livy
1518
woodcut and letterpress
(printed by Johann Schöffer in Mainz)
British Museum

Sean Scully
Munich 3-18-09
2009
watercolor on paper
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Monogrammist J.B. (British printmaker)
Young acting star Henry West Betty
supplanting veterans John & Charles Kemble

1804
hand-colored etching
British Museum

Morton Schamberg
Jeanne and Richard
1912
gelatin silver print
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife!
        Throughout the sensual world proclaim,
One crowded hour of glorious life
        Is worth an age without a name. 

– Thomas Osbert Mordaunt, from Verses written during the War, 1756-1763