Arthur Hacker Syrinx 1892 oil on canvas Manchester Art Gallery |
Albert Joseph Moore A Venus before 1893 oil on canvas York City Art Gallery |
David Bomberg The Bath 1922 oil on canvas York City Art Gallery |
William George Gillies Bathers ca. 1924-25 oil on canvas Royal Scottish Academy of Art and Architecture, Edinburgh |
William Edward Frost The Sea Cave ca. 1851 oil on canvas Russell-Cotes Art Gallery and Museum, Bournemouth |
Annie Louisa Swynnerton A Dryad ca. 1880 oil on canvas Glasgow Museums |
Topiary
I cannot know twisted Henriette of the plant kingdom
Engrafted with a crutch. And yet her bulbous concerns
Effuse a solid blue from inside,
Like a steel Dryad, and her gaze effaced
Shines with distended power. Otherwise
These clusterjewels would not dazzle us so,
As limbs proliferate through her pulped brain
From dendrites where creation flared
And this crippled tree would seem defaced,
J'Accuse! beneath the lace of this clipped sister
And would not glisten in synaptic blasts
Would not, from all the reaching boughs of self,
Burst like ripe sapphires: for here there is no place
That does not see you. You shake forth a nest.
– Camille Guthrie, from Articulated Lair: Poems for Louise Bourgeois (2013)
attributed to Daniel Seiter Venus and Cupid ca. 1675-1700 oil on canvas Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool |
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres Sleeping Odalisque ca. 1830-40 oil on canvas Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
Lucian Freud Small Naked Portrait 1973-74 oil on canvas Ashmolean Museum, Oxford |
William Etty A Bather ca. 1835-45 oil on panel York City Art Gallery |
William Etty Standing Model ca. 1830 oil on panel Fairfax House, York |
William Etty Three Female Nudes before 1849 oil on panel Courtauld Gallery, London |
William Etty Two Female Nudes before 1849 oil on panel Courtauld Gallery, London |
Myles Murphy Yellow Nude 1963 oil on canvas Southbank Centre, London |
Euan Uglow The Blue Towel 1982 oil on canvas, mounted on panel Jerwood Collection, London |