Mimmo Paladino Aleco 1990 screenprint, woodcut, etching and drypoint Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney |
Mimmo Paladino Dedalus 1984 color linocut Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney |
Mimmo Paladino Occhio Sinistro 1986 linocut National Gallery of Australia, Canberra |
Mimmo Paladino Ospite Conosciuto 1986 linocut National Gallery of Australia, Canberra |
Walker Evans Boarding House, Birmingham, Alabama 1936 gelatin silver print Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York |
Walker Evans Doorway, 204 West 13th Street, New York City ca. 1931 gelatin silver print National Gallery of Australia, Canberra |
Walker Evans Maine 1969 gelatin silver print National Gallery of Australia, Canberra |
Walker Evans New York State Farm Interior 1931 gelatin silver print National Gallery of Australia, Canberra |
Margaret Olley Chinese Screen and Yellow Room 1996 oil on panel Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney |
Margaret Olley Hawkesbury Wildflowers and Pears ca. 1973 oil on panel National Gallery of Australia, Canberra |
Margaret Olley Katie's Quinces 1976 oil on panel National Gallery of Australia, Canberra |
Margaret Olley Ranunculus and Pears 2004 oil on panel Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney |
Fairfield Porter The Table 1970 lithograph Art Institute of Chicago |
Fairfield Porter Still Life with Giotto's Magdalene 1966 oil on panel Portland Museum of Art, Maine |
Fairfield Porter Elaine de Kooning 1957 oil on canvas Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
Fairfield Porter Laurence at the Piano 1953 oil on panel New Britain Museum of American Art, Connecticut |
Sonnets from China
XV
As evening fell the day's oppression lifted;
Tall peaks came into focus; it had rained:
Across wide lawns and cultured flowers drifted
The conversation of the highly trained.
Thin gardeners watched them pass and priced their shoes;
A chauffeur waited, reading in the drive,
For them to finish their exchange of views:
It looked a picture of the way to live.
Far off, no matter what good they intended,
Two armies waited for a verbal error
With well-made implements for causing pain,
And on the issue of their charm depended
A land laid waste with all its young men slain,
Its women weeping, and its towns in terror.
– W.H. Auden (1938)