Friday, July 21, 2023

Picturing Windows - III

James Wyatt
Window Designs for Cobham Hall, Kent
ca. 1790
drawing
Yale Center for British Art

Carl Gustav Carus
Gothic Window in Ruined Monastery at Oybin
ca. 1828
oil on canvas
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

attributed to Fratelli Alinari
Window, Palazzo Larderel, Florence
ca. 1870-90
albumen silver print
Getty Museum, Los Angeles

Adolf Le Comte
Gothic Revival Window with Broken Panes
ca. 1910
drawing
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Baron Adolf De Meyer
Windows on the Bosphorus
ca. 1910
photogravure
Minneapolis Institute of Art

Helen Allingham
Arched Window in Stone Wall
before 1926
watercolor
British Museum

C.R.B. Barrett
Window, Naval Storehouse, Deptford
before 1930
drawing
(print study)
British Museum

Clarence John Laughlin
The Sinister Window
ca. 1948
gelatin silver print
Harvard Art Museums

Harry Callahan
Church Window
1949
gelatin silver print
Art Institute of Chicago

Anonymous Photographer
Window
ca. 1960
gelatin silver print
Saint Louis Art Museum

Jo Alison Feiler
No. 21 (Blue Window)
ca. 1970-80
fresson print
Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Alan Lowndes
The Lone Vigil
1977
oil on card
Yale Center for British Art

Eliot Porter
Bay Window, Castine, Maine
1978
dye transfer print
Princeton University Art Museum

Michael A. Smith
New Orleans
1985
gelatin silver print
Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia

Iain Mackenzie
White-Washed Window, Glasgow
before 1997
gelatin silver print
Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh

John Riddy
London (Garrick)
2008-2009
photograph
Tate Gallery

To the Classicist

City of wind, your jungle flowers
Luminous through the autumn hours,
Your street-lamps, clustered like white grapes,
Flicker upon the ghostly shapes
Of satyrs, fauns, and golden apes.

– Sterling North (1931)