Monday, April 20, 2026

Solids

Ursula von Rydingsvard
Dumna
2015
bronze
New Orleans Museum of Art


Friedrich Hagenauer
Portrait of a Young Man
before 1546
bronze medallion
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Hans Arp
Evocation d'une Forme Humaine, Lunaire, Spectrale
created 1950 - this enlarged version cast in 1957
bronze
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC

Antico (Pier Jacopo Alari Bonacolsi)
Diva Giulia
ca. 1500-1502
bronze medallion
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Bernard Rosenthal
Rondo
1965
bronze on marble base
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Piero Paolo Galeotti
Bianca Pansana Carcania
before 1587
bronze medallion
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Barbara Hepworth
Figure for Landscape
1960
bronze
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC

attributed to Giovanni Candida
Maximilian I, Archduke of Austria (later Emperor)
1477
bronze medallion
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Albert Paley
Portal Gates for the Renwick Gallery
(winning entry in design competition)
1974
bronze, steel, brass, copper
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Guillaume Dupré
Maria Magdalena, consort of Cosimo II de' Medici
1613
bronze medallion
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Henri Matisse
Copy after Puget's Écorché
1903
bronze
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC

Giovanni Battista Cambi (il Bombarda)
Violante Brasavola
ca. 1565-75
bronze medallion
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Mark Grotjahn
Untitled (Blue Purple Left Red Streak Mask M15.c)
2011
painted bronze
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Giovanni da Cavino
Portrait of Alessandro Bassiano with Self Portrait
before 1570
bronze medallion
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Jean Broome-Norton
Woman with Horses
1934
patinated bronze relief
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Pietro Calvi
Ira Aldridge as Othello
ca. 1870
bronze and marble
Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia

Ferdinand Barbedienne
Allegorical Figure
ca. 1880-90
bronze
Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto

The Defeated

In battles of no renown
My fellows and I fell down,
And over the dead men roar
The battles they lost before.

The thunderstruck flagstaffs fall,
The earthquake breaches the wall,
The far-felled steeples resound,
And we lie under the ground.

O soldiers, saluted afar
By them that had seen your star,
In conquest and freedom and pride
Remember your friends that died.

Amid rejoicing and song
Remember, my lads, how long,
How deep the innocent trod
The grapes of the anger of God.

– A.E. Housman (1936)