Friday, April 3, 2020

Academic Figure-Studies (Painted)

William Etty
Académie
ca. 1814-16
oil on board
York City Art Gallery

Théodore Géricault
Académie
ca. 1816-18
oil on paper
New Art Gallery, Walsall (West Midlands)

William Edward Frost
Académie
ca. 1840
oil on canvas, mounted on panel
Victoria & Albert Museum, London

Robert Brough
Académie
1892
oil on board
Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen

Kate Ethel Cowderoy
Académie
ca. 1895
oil on canvas
Bushey Museum and Art Gallery, Hertfordshire

Louie Burrell
Académie
ca. 1900-1903
oil on canvas
University of Hull Art Collection, Yorkshire

Alfred Munnings
Académie
1902
oil on canvas
Norfolk Museums

Ida Knox
Académie
1918
oil on canvas
University College London Art Museum

Sympathy of Peoples

No but come closer. Come a little
Closer. Let the wall-eyed hornyhanded
Panhandler hit you for a dime
Sir and shiver. Snow like this
Drives its pelting shadows over Bremen,
Over sad Louvain and the eastern
Marshes, the black wold. It sighs
Into the cold sea of the north,
That vast contemptuous revery between
Antiquity and you. Turn up your collar,
Pull your hatbrim down. Commune
Briefly with your ignorant heart
For those bewildered raging children
Europe surrenders her old gentry to.

All their eyes turn in the night from
Your fretfulness and forgetfulness,
Your talk; they turn away, friend.
Their eyes dilated with dreams of power
Fix on the image of the mob wet
With blood scaling the gates of order.
Anarchist and incendiary
Caesar bind that brotherhood
To use and crush the civil guard,
Debauch the debauché, level
Tenement and court with soaring
Sideslipping squadrons and hard regiments,
Stripped for the smoking levée of the
Howitzer, thunderstruck under the net.

The great mouth of hunger closes
On swineherd and princess, on the air
Of jongleur and forest bell; Grendel
Swims from the foul deep again.
Deputy, cartelist, academician
Question in haste any plumeless captain
Before the peremptory descent
Of mankind, flattered and proud.
With whitening morning on the waste
You may discern through binoculars
A long line of the shawled and frozen,
Moving yet motionless, as if those
Were populations whom the sun failed
And the malicious moon enchanted
To wander and be still forever
The prey of wolves and bestial mazes.

– Robert Fitzgerald, from A Wreath For the Sea: Poems, 1935-1943

Sylvia Wishart
Académie
ca. 1956
oil on board
Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen

William John Connon
Académie
1956
oil on canvas
Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen


Joseph McManus
Académie
1962
oil on board
Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen

Alan Robb
Académie
1968
oil on board
Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen

Robert Stevens
Académie
1969
oil on canvas
Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen

Jean Murray
Académie
1969
oil on canvas
Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen

Martha Gordon
Académie
1969
oil on canvas
Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen