Wednesday, June 3, 2026

Doubts


Lou Barlow
Gourmet Shop
1983
wood-engraving
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC


Dirck Barendsz
Portrait of a Man
ca. 1570
oil on panel 
Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia

Marcel Barbeau
Park Avenue
ca. 1960-70
oil on canvas
Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia

Fritz Bamberger
Portrait of the Artist's Sister
ca. 1850
watercolor on paper
Städel Museum, Frankfurt

Roger Ballen
Alter Ego
2010
inkjet print
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC

Hans Baldung
Martyrdom of St Sebastian
ca. 1505-1507
woodcut
British Museum

Pietro Paolo Baldini
Christ and the Samaritan Woman
before 1650
drawing
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

David Bailey
Rudolf Nureyev
ca. 1962
gelatin silver print
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Francis Bacon
Study for Portrait of Van Gogh III
1957
oil on canvas
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC

Jacomart Baçó
The Annunciation
ca. 1450
tempera and gold on panels
Museo de Bellas Artes de Valencia

Ellen Auerbach
Delphi
1952
gelatin silver print
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri

Charles Aubry
Potted Cineraria
1865
albumen silver print
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Arthur S. Aubry
Revisitation (Tacoma Water District)
2005
C-print
Tacoma Art Museum, Washington State

Robert Ashton
Mr Rodney no. 16
1980
gelatin silver print
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

Boris Artzybasheff
Hydraulic Press
ca. 1935
gouache on board
New Britain Museum
of American Art, Connecticut

Anonymous Photographer
"The Lawn Fete" from silent film, The Scales of Justice
(at Echo Lawn, Balmville, New York)

ca. 1913
gelatin silver print
Archives of American Gardens, Washington DC

Anonymous Photographer
Portrait of Adèle Hugo
ca. 1854
restored photographic print
Maison de Victor Hugo, Paris

from Surf's Up

I look in the men's room mirror at a man and his blood thinner.
Why it's you, Eliquis, dear friend!
I see myself for a fleeting second looking like someone else.
I like the tiny Cartier watch the fellow's wearing.
I remember when he was once in Tahiti.

Lift me off the ground, mighty Ezra Pound!
Sing me your lyrical skunk spray of Cantos.
Robert Lowell, I will join you soon.
I remember DVF's enchantment apartment in the Rue de Seine.
I remember Mumbai when it was Bombay.

England – where the English are – 
Used to smile with bad English teeth in the toxic coal-fire air.
It was the London of T.S. Eliot,
St. Louisan and expatriate,
Who found love late.

– Frederick Seidel (2018)