Monday, September 28, 2026

Visual Preferences (20th Century: 1982)

Alice Neel
The Youth
1982
lithograph
Loeb Art Center, Vassar College,
Poughkeepsie, New York

Arnold Newman
Plaster Casts - George Segal's Studio, New Jersey
1982
gelatin silver print
San Diego Museum of Art

Barbara Noah
Tag V
1982
hand-colored photo-etching
Tacoma Art Museum, Washington State

Anne Noggle
Viola Bird
1982
gelatin silver print
Tacoma Art Museum, Washington State

Lucio Pozzi
Three Memories in a Red Storm
1982
oil on canvas
Portland Museum of Art, Maine

Robert Rauschenberg
Untitled
1982
collage on cardboard with textile backing
Menil Collection, Houston

Gerhard Richter
Candle
1982
oil on canvas
Art Institute of Chicago

Gerhard Richter
Two Candles
1982
oil on canvas
Art Institute of Chicago

Bridget Riley
Elapse
1982
screenprint
Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York

Richard Ross
Booth's Bird Museum, Brighton, England
1982
C-print
Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, North Carolina

David Salle
Poverty Is No Disgrace
1982
oil and acrylic on three canvases, with attached chair-form
Akron Art Museum, Ohio

Frank Stella
Shards I
1982
lithograph and screenprint
Dallas Museum of Art

Stephen Tanis
Green Package
1982
watercolor on paper
Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington

Bernard Villemot
Bally
1982
screenprint
(poster advertising shoes)
Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami

Andy Warhol
Models posing as Sailors
1982
gelatin silver print
Fralin Museum of Art, Charlottesville, Virginia

Joel-Peter Witkin
Woman with Severed Head
1982
gelatin silver print
Akron Art Museum, Ohio

from Five Songs

Deftly, admiral, cast your fly
     Into the slow deep hover,
Till the wise old trout mistake and die;
     Salt are the deeps that cover
     The glittering fleets you led,
          White is your head.

Read on, ambassador, engrossed
     In your favorite Stendhal;
The Outer Provinces are lost,
     Unshaven horsemen swill
     The great wines of the Chateaux
          Where you danced long ago.

Do not turn, do not lift your eyes
     Toward the still pair standing
On the bridge between your properties,
     Indifferent to your minding:
     In its glory, in its power,
          This is their hour.

Nothing your strength, your skill, could do
     Can alter their embrace
Or dispersuade the Furies who
     At the appointed place
     With claw and dreadful brow
          Wait for them now.

– W.H. Auden (1948)