Sunday, September 15, 2024

Sérusier - Hamilton - Renger-Patzsch - Rowell

Paul Sérusier
Landscape at Pont Aven
1890
oil on canvas
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa

Paul Sérusier
Seaweed Gatherer
ca. 1890
oil on canvas
Indianapolis Museum of Art

Paul Sérusier
Still Life with Apples and Violets
ca. 1890-91
oil on canvas
Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California

Paul Sérusier
La Marchande Ambulante
1895
lithograph
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Richard Hamilton
Interior with Monochromes
1979
screenprint and collotype
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Richard Hamilton
Patricia Knight
1982
etching and aquatint
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Richard Hamilton
The Citizen
1985
dye transfer print
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Richard Hamilton
The State
1994
dye transfer print
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Albert Renger-Patzsch
Zwinger, Dresden
ca. 1927
gelatin silver print
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Albert Renger-Patzsch
Willow Tree in Winter
ca. 1925
gelatin silver print
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Albert Renger-Patzsch
Sunflower
ca. 1925
gelatin silver print
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Albert Renger-Patzsch
Digitalis purpurea
ca. 1922-23
gelatin silver print
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Kenneth Rowell
Costume Designs for Daisy and Rose in Alice in Wonderland
1953
watercolor and collage on paper
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Kenneth Rowell
Costume Designs for Waltzing Soldiers in Carte Blanche
1953
gouache and collage on paper
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Kenneth Rowell
Preliminary Design for ballet The Planets
ca. 1975
acrylic, gouache and collage on paper
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Kenneth Rowell
Scrim Design for Alice in Wonderland
1953
watercolor and ink on paper
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Spelling Problem

A woman from Barnard College calls me and in the course of our phone conversation she asks me if I would please spell hemorrhaging for her. I spell it, but wrong – maybe "hemmhoraging."
     I don't like not knowing how to spell a word, since I am interested in how words are spelled.
     So then I become curious and begin asking friends and others to spell that word – whenever I am talking to someone on the phone.
     R. spells it "hemmorhaging."
     E. spells it "hemmoraging" and then hastily changes it to "hemorhaging."
     Mother spells it "hemorhaging."
     Mother, before spelling it, mentions the "hae-" and "he-" choice, which E. also mentioned.
     At first I think the "ae-" is a "red herring," as I say to E. (Or a "raed haerring.") But when I try writing the word using the "ae-" form, I think maybe it isn't irrelevant after all. Maybe using the "ae-" form would make it easier to spell the rest of the word correctly.
     D. spells it "hemmoraging."
     S. spells it "hemhorraging."
     Ann L. spells it "hemhoraging."

But all this happened fifteen years ago. And although I keep thinking back and trying to remember, I just can't remember why a woman telephoning me from Barnard College would ask me to spell the word hemorrhaging.

– Lydia Davis, from Our Strangers (2023)