Thursday, August 15, 2024

Made in 1990

Lisa Zwerling
Mannequin, Pre-Columbian Figure, and Drapery
1990
oil on canvas
Fralin Museum of Art, Charlottesville, Virginia

Lawrence Weiner
Chains Wrapped Around One Thing & Another
1990
vinyl text panels
(variable installation)
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto

Joanne Tod
When Imperative is Conditional
1990
oil on canvas
Museum London, Ontario

Alice Aycock
Miami Proposal II
(steel, concrete, water)

1990
screenprint
Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Wisconsin

William Robinson
William Jumping the Gate
1990
etching
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Orest Semchishen
Two Immigrant Polish Priests, Lac Ste. Anne, Alberta
1990
gelatin silver print
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa

Lorraine Gilbert
Josée and Carole, Invermere, British Columbia
1990
C-print
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa

Jeff Atkinson
Piazza del Duomo, Milano
1990
gelatin silver print
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Jeff Atkinson
Camera on the Acropolis, Athens
1990
gelatin silver print
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

David Spear
Neugents on the Porch
1990
gelatin silver print
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh

Robert Nelson Markle
Untitled (Table Dancer)
1990
acrylic and ink on canvas
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto

Sandow Birk
Guard Tower,
Sing-Sing Correctional Facility, Ossining NY

1990
acrylic and oil on canvas
New Britain Museum of American Art, Connecticut

Sharon Thompson
Heaven and Earth move with Devotion
1990
oil on canvas
Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston, Ontario

Milan Todd
Galahs
1990
screenprint
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Yvan Adam
L'Homme de Rêve
1990
screenprint
(poster for Canadian Film Board)
Musée National des Beaux-Arts du Québec

Robert Foster
Yellow Pitcher
1990
anodised aluminum
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide

A.E. Housman

No one, not even Cambridge, was to blame 
(Blame if  you like the human situation):
Heart-injured in North London, he became
The Latin Scholar of his generation.

Deliberately he chose the dry-as-dust,
Kept tears like dirty postcards in a drawer;
Food was his public love, his private lust
Something to do with violence and the poor.

In savage foot-notes on unjust editions
He timidly attacked the life he led,
And put the money of his feelings on

The uncritical relations of the dead,
Where only geographical divisions
Parted the coarse hanged soldier from the don.

– W.H. Auden (1938)