Wednesday, April 10, 2024

Modern Heads - III

Bernard Buffet
Holy Face
1953
drypoint
Tate Gallery

Cecil Collins
Head
1936
watercolor
Tate Gallery

George Zachary Constant
Head of a Woman
ca. 1938
drypoint
Philadelphia Museum of Art

Frances Hodgkins
Portrait of Kitty West
1939
watercolor and gouache
Tate Gallery

Mary Howard Jennings
Head Study
ca. 1937
linocut
Philadelphia Museum of Art

Clarence John Laughlin
Nostalgic Head no. 2
1941
gelatin silver print
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri

Fernand Léger
Head of a Woman
1953
lithograph
Yale University Art Gallery

Henri Matisse
Head of a Woman
1954
lithograph
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri

Cedric Morris
David and Barbara Carr
ca. 1940
oil on canvas
Tate Gallery

Eduardo Paolozzi
Head
1946
drawing
Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh

Pablo Picasso
Head of a Woman
1945
lithograph
Phillips Collection, Washington DC

Oskar Schlemmer
Head of a Youth in Profile
1934
drawing, with watercolor
Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart

Kathleen Sheffield
Fashion Heads
1940
drawing
Victoria & Albert Museum, London

Knut Skinnarland
Head of painter Johan Aage Ween
1941
bronze
National Gallery of Norway, Oslo

W. Eugene Smith
Guardia Civil
1951
gelatin silver print
Tate Gallery

Edward Strzalkowski
Punch's Head
ca. 1937
watercolor and gouache
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

from Voyager

We've packed our bags, we're set to fly
no one knows where, the maps won't do.
We're crossing the ocean's nihilistic blue
with an unborn infant's opal eye.

It has the clarity of earth and sky
seen from a spacecraft, once removed,
as through an amniotic lens, that groove-
lessness of space, the last star by.

– Todd Hearon (2008)