Wednesday, September 11, 2024

Kitaj - Kirchner - Jones - Leyendecker

R.B. Kitaj
Dismantling the Red Tent
1963-64
oil and collage on canvas
Los Angeles County Museum of Art

R.B. Kitaj
His Every Move
1966
screenprint
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

R.B. Kitaj
Los Angeles no. 19 (Fox)
2003
oil on canvas
Los Angeles County Museum of Art

R.B. Kitaj
Nerves - Massage - Defeat - Heart
1967
screenprint
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Garden Cafe with Soldier
1909
drawing
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Portrait of a Woman
ca. 1908
gouache on paper
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Still Life
1907
color woodblock print
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Three Women Talking
1907
color woodblock print
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Owen Jones
Grammar of Ornament - Half-Title Page
1856
chromolithograph
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Owen Jones
Grammar of Ornament - Illuminated MSS
1856
chromolithograph
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Owen Jones
Grammar of Ornament - Middle Ages
1856
chromolithograph
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Owen Jones
Grammar of Ornament - Nineveh & Persia
1856
chromolithograph
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Joseph Christian Leyendecker
Study of Cast of Antique Sculpture
ca. 1895
drawing
Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington

Joseph Christian Leyendecker
Sketch of Dancer kicking Tambourine
1895
watercolor and gouache on board
Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington

Joseph Christian Leyendecker
Self Culture
1897
lithograph (poster for magazine)
Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington

Joseph Christian Leyendecker
Study for Fashion Illustration
ca. 1920
oil on canvas
New Britain Museum
of American Art, Connecticut

May

May with its light behaving
Stirs vessel, eye and limb,
The singular and sad
Are willing to recover, 
And to each swan-delighting river
The careless picnics come
In living white and red.

Our dead, remote and hooded, 
In hollows rest, but we
From their vague woods have broken,
Forests where children meet
And the white angel-vampires flit,
Stand now with shaded eye,
The dangerous apple taken.

The real world lies before us,
Brave motions of the young,
Abundant wish for death,
The pleasing, pleasured, haunted:
A dying Master sinks tormented
In his admirers' ring,
The unjust walk the earth.

And love that makes impatient
Tortoise and roe, that lays
The blonde beside the dark,
Urges upon our blood,
Before the evil and the good
How insufficient is
Touch, endearment, look.

– W.H. Auden (1934)