Claes Oldenburg The Letter Q as Beach House with Sailboat 1972 lithograph National Gallery of Australia, Canberra |
Claes Oldenburg Geometric Mouse 1969-71 painted aluminum and steel Walker Art Center, Minneapolis |
Claes Oldenburg Ice Cream Soda with Cookie 1963 painted plaster and glass with found objects Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto |
Claes Oldenburg Ice Bag (scale B) 1971 mixed-media construction National Gallery of Australia, Canberra |
Tom Roberts Madame Hartl 1909-1910 oil on canvas National Gallery of Australia, Canberra |
Tom Roberts Smike Streeton, age 24 1891 oil on canvas Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney |
Tom Roberts Study of Lena Brasch ca. 1893 oil on canvas National Gallery of Australia, Canberra |
Tom Roberts Eileen 1892 oil on canvas Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney |
Brassaï English Showgirl, Folies Bergère 1932 gelatin silver print National Gallery of Australia, Canberra |
Brassaï Stagehand Asleep, Folies Bergère ca. 1932 gelatin silver print National Gallery of Australia, Canberra |
Brassaï Masked Women in Carnival Sideshow ca. 1933 gelatin silver print National Gallery of Australia, Canberra |
Brassaï Women on Parade in Carnival Sideshow ca. 1933 gelatin silver print National Gallery of Australia, Canberra |
Jillposters (feminist collective in Melbourne) Stop Uranium Sales to France ca. 1983-87 screenprint (postcard) National Gallery of Australia, Canberra |
Jillposters (feminist collective in Melbourne) Agitate for Nuclear-free Fish ca. 1983-87 screenprint (postcard) National Gallery of Australia, Canberra |
Jillposters (feminist collective in Melbourne) No Child Need Ever Worry 1983 screenprint (poster) National Gallery of Australia, Canberra |
Jillposters (feminist collective in Melbourne) Direct from Grower to You 1984 screenprint (poster) National Gallery of Australia, Canberra |
from A Walk after Dark
Can set the spirit soaring:
After a tiring day
Than a shed for a faultless machine,
Is gone like Imperial Rome
The stoic manner in which
The lacrimae rerum note.
– W.H. Auden (1948)