Alfred Turner Head of Charlotte Turner, the Artist's Wife ca. 1910 terracotta Yale Center for British Art |
Odilon Redon Head of a Young Woman ca. 1910 pastel Harvard Art Museums |
Wilhelm Lehmbruck Inclined Head of a Woman 1910 cast stone Tate Gallery |
Alphonse Legros Head of a Man ca. 1900 drawing Princeton University Art Museum |
Mark Gertler The Artist's Brother Harry holding an Apple 1913 tempera and oil on panel Tate Gallery |
John Singer Sargent Head Studies for Gassed ca. 1918-19 drawing National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
Augustus John Study of a Young Woman ca. 1925 drawing Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio |
Alexei von Jawlensky Abstract Head - Inner Vision - Night 1923 oil on cardboard Philadelphia Museum of Art |
Ragnhild Kaarbø Composition with a Head ca. 1925 oil on canvas National Gallery of Norway, Oslo |
Brents Carlton Untitled (Head Study) 1926 oil on paper Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (Achenbach Foundation) |
Walter Thomas Monnington Man's Head (Mr. Gardner) 1932 drawing Yale Center for British Art |
Pablo Picasso Head of a Woman 1950 bronze Phillips Collection, Washington DC |
Brassaï Graffiti ca. 1955 gelatin silver print Tate Gallery |
Chris Killip Car Tire Builder 1989 gelatin silver print Tate Gallery |
Georg Baselitz Kopf (Head) 1984 color woodblock print Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri |
Robert Broki Head of Constantine 1993 color woodblock print Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (Achenbach Foundation) |
On Saturday afternoons an hour was spent on her Greek lessons, for she had insisted that Jenny and Sandy should teach her Greek at the same time as they learned it. "There is an old tradition for this practice," said Miss Brodie. "Many families in the olden days could afford to send but one child to school, whereupon that one scholar of the family imparted to the others in the evening what he had learned in the morning. I have long wanted to know the Greek language, and this scheme will also serve to impress your knowledge on your own minds. John Stuart Mill used to rise at dawn to learn Greek at the age of five, and what John Stuart Mill could do as an infant at dawn, I too can do on a Saturday afternoon in my prime."
– Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961)