Monday, May 7, 2018

Practitioners of Printmaking (active after 1800)

David Wilkie
Three boys with a dog
ca. 1810-20
etching, drypoint
Philadelphia Museum of Art

Richard Parkes Bonington
Bologna
ca. 1826-27
etching
Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Lawrence Barnett Phillips
Seated Angel
ca. 1857-72
etching
British Museum

Émile Durandeau
Les nuits de Monsieur Baudelaire
1861
lithograph from Le Boulevard
British Museum

Poem

Khrushchev is coming on the right day!
                                                                            the cool
     graced light
is pushed off the enormous glass piers by hard wind
and everything is tossing, hurrying on up
                                                                                   this
     country
has everything but politesse, a Puerto Rican cab driver
     says
and five different girls I see
                                                        look like Piedie
     Gimbel
with her blonde hair tossing too,
                                                                as she looked
     when I pushed
her little daughter on the swing on the lawn it was also
     windy

last night we went to a movie and came out,

     Ionesco is greater
than Beckett, Vincent said, that's what I think,
     blueberry blintzes
and Khrushchev was probably being carped at
                                                                             in
     Washington, no

     politesse
Vincent tells me about his mother's trip to Sweden

     Hans tell us
about his father's life in Sweden, it sounds like Grace
     Hartigan's
painting, Sweden
                                so I go home to bed and names drift
     through my

     head
Purgatorio Merchado, Gerhard Schwartz and Gaspar
     Gonzales,
                 all unknown figures of the early morning as I
     go to work

where does the evil of the year go
                                                                when September
     takes New York
and turns it into ozone stalagmites
                                                                deposits of light
                                                                so I get back up
make coffee, and read François Villon, his life, so dark
          New York seems blinding and my tie is blowing
     up the street
I wish it would blow off
                                            though it is cold and
     somewhat warms

     my neck
as the train bears Khrushchev on to Pennsylvania Station
          and the light seems to be eternal
          and joy seems to be inexorable
          I am foolish enough always to find it in wind

– Frank O'Hara (written 17 September 1959)

Mariano Fortuny
Victory: standing youth holding statuette of Winged Victory
1869
etching
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Frans Lauwers after Alfred Stevens
Portrait of a woman
ca. 1880
etching
British Museum

Thomas Woolner after Theodore Blake Wigman
Thomas Woolner in his studio
1883
wood-engraving from The Century Magazine
British Museum

Berthe Morisot
Berthe Morisot drawing with her daughter Julie Manet
1889
drypoint
British Museum

Édouard Vuillard
Intérieur aux teintures roses III
1899
lithograph
British Museum

Jean-Louis Forain
Portrait of Colette Willy
ca. 1900
lithograph
British Museum

Muirhead Bone
Under the Pincian trees (Rome)
1911
drypoint
British Museum

Walter Sickert
Mushrooms
ca. 1922
etching
British Museum

Georges Barbier
Mme Ida Rubinstein in La Dame aux Camélias (gown by Worth)
1923
pochoir from Gazette du Bon Ton
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Tom Phillips
Samuel Beckett (at Riverside Studios)
1984
lithograph
British Museum