Emphatic Linear Perspective - II

Francis Bacon
Seated Figure
1960
oil on canvas
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Wybrand Hendriks
Oval Hall, Teylers Museum
ca. 1802
oil on panel
Teylers Museum, Haarlem

Pierre Philippe
Banquet in the Mauritshuis for King Charles II of England
1660
engraving
Mauritshuis, The Hague

Marco Ricci
Capriccio of Antique Ruins
ca. 1708-1710
gouache on paper
John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota

Bernardo Bellotto
Sketch for Stage Design with Courtyard of a Roman Palace
ca. 1760
drawing
Morgan Library, New York

Francesco Cocchi
Stage Design with Cloister Corridor
ca. 1830
drawing
Hamburger Kunsthalle

Johannes Jelgerhuis
Interior of the Nieuwe Kerk in Delft
1825
oil on canvas
Teylers Museum, Haarlem

Jean Lemaire
Theseus finding his Father's Sword
ca. 1630-40
oil on canvas
Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen

Susan Ryder
The Ante-Room, Royal Hospital, Chelsea
ca. 1975
oil on canvas
Royal Hospital, Chelsea

Gustave Caillebotte
Les Champs, plaine de Gennevilliers, étude en jaune et vert
ca. 1884
oil on canvas
Denver Art Museum

Canaletto
The Doge and Grand Council in the Sala del Maggior Consiglio, Venice
ca. 1761-65
oil on canvas
Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen

Lucas Cranach the Elder
Cardinal Albrecht of Brandenburg as St Jerome
1526
oil on panel
John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota

Claude Lorrain
Aeneas and Dido in Carthage
1675-76
oil on canvas
Hamburger Kunsthalle

Nicolas de Hoey
Art Gallery of Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria
ca. 1660
drawing
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Enrico Torri
Stables of Sant' Uldarico, Parma
1876
oil on canvas
Galleria Nazionale di Parma

Carel Willink
Terrace with Hercules
1940
oil on canvas
Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht

I put under the power of my prayer

All that will give me help.

Rafael keep him Wednesday,
Sachiel feed him Thursday,
Hamiel provide him Friday,
Cassiel increase him Saturday.

– W.B. Yeats (1908)

Magazine Work

Allen Anderson
Rubout
ca. 1950
oil on canvas
(magazine illustration)
New Britain Museum of American Art, Connecticut

Walter Martin Baumhofer
The Pool Where Horror Dwelt
1934
oil on canvas
(magazine illustration)
New Britain Museum of American Art, Connecticut

Rudolph Belarski
Storm in Space
1942
oil on canvas
(magazine illustration)
New Britain Museum of American Art, Connecticut

Rafael De Soto
Dime Detective Magazine
1940
oil on canvas
(cover illustration)
New Britain Museum of American Art, Connecticut

James Montgomery Flagg
New Orleans Pralines and Gumbo
1939
oil on canvas
(magazine illustration)
New Britain Museum of American Art, Connecticut

Gayle Porter Hoskins
Romantic Range Magazine
1937
oil on canvas
(cover illustration)
Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington

Gayle Porter Hoskins
Illustration for story in The Woman's Home Companion
1925
oil on canvas
Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington

Barbara Schwinn Jordan
Illustration for Collier's Magazine
1951
gouache on board
Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington

Barbara Schwinn Jordan
Illustration for The Ladies' Home Journal
1952
watercolor and gouache on paper
Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington

Andrew Loomis
"Nora," he said, huskily . . .
1940
oil on canvas
(illustration for The Ladies' Home Journal)
Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington

Harold McCauley
Fantastic Adventures Magazine
1942
oil on canvas
(cover illustration)
New Britain Museum of American Art, Connecticut

Frank Rudolph Paul
Amazing Stories Magazine
1941
gouache on paper
(cover illustration)
New Britain Museum of American Art, Connecticut

Malcolm Smith
Amazing Stories Magazine
1946
gouache on paper
(cover illustration)
New Britain Museum of American Art, Connecticut

Malcolm Smith
Fantastic Adventures Magazine
1943
gouache on paper
(cover illustration)
New Britain Museum of American Art, Connecticut

George Lee Trimm
Hooded Henchmen making Wax Statues
1940
oil on canvas
(magazine illustration)
New Britain Museum of American Art, Connecticut

Hugh Joseph Ward
Hollywood Detective Magazine
1943
oil on canvas
(cover illustration)
New Britain Museum of American Art, Connecticut

Pictures of the People in the War

Later I'll pull down the shade

And let this fluid draw life out of the paper.

Telling how. Except instead

Of showing you equipment I would first off share

My vision of the thing: the angle of that head

Submerged in fixer there, the bare

Soul in its set; you see, it's done with speed

And lighting but my point is that one never

Gets so close to anyone within experience. I took

These pictures of the people in the war

About a year ago – their hands were opening to me like

Language; tanks and dwellings meanwhile misty in the rear.

– Louise Glück (1968)

Emphatic Linear Perspective - I

Wilhelm Schubert van Ehrenberg
Scala Regia at the Vatican
1667
oil on canvas
Hamburger Kunsthalle

Ferdinando Galli-Bibiena
Scala Regia (Capriccio)
ca. 1690
drawing
Morgan Library, New York

Anonymous Italian Artist
Scala Regia, Palazzo Farnese, Caprarola
ca. 1550-1600
drawing
Kunstmuseum Basel

Édouard Bouillière
Balconies on rue Mage
ca. 1932
watercolor and gouache on paper
Musée des Augustins de Toulouse

Lawrence Alma-Tadema
The Convalescent
1869
oil on panel
Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha

Dirck van Delen
Palatial Interior
ca. 1632
oil on panel
Národní Galerie, Prague

Canaletto
Partial View of Piazza San Marco, Venice
ca. 1735
oil on canvas
Deutsche Barockgalerie, Augsburg

John Rogers Cox
Gray and Gold
1942
oil on canvas
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio

Raphael
The Annunciation
ca. 1502-1504
tempera on panel, transferred to canvas
(predella fragment from altarpiece)
Pinacoteca Vaticana, Rome

Walter Luyken
Sculptor's Studio
1835
drawing
Museum Het Valkhof, Nijmegen

Anonymous British Artist
Drawing Room at Donavourd House, Perthshire
ca. 1860
watercolor
Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh

Augustin-Alexandre Thierriat
Old Woman Spinning
1815
oil on canvas
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon

attributed to Benedetto Bordone
Nymph approaching Poliphilo through an Arcade
1499
woodcut illustration with letterpress
(text by Francesco Colonna from the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili,
published in Venice by Aldus Manutius)
Hamburger Kunsthalle

Edvard Munch
Girls on a Bridge
1901
oil on canvas
Hamburger Kunsthalle

Andreas Schelfhout
Street in Huy, Belgium
ca. 1824-25
oil on panel
Teylers Museum, Haarlem

Egid Schor
Quadratura Design for Ceiling Decoration
ca. 1700
drawing, with watercolor
Hamburger Kunsthalle

May this fire have driven out
The Shape-Changers that can put
Ruin on a great king's house
Until all be ruinous. 

Names whereby a man has known
The threshold and the hearthstone,

Gather on the wind and drive

The women none can kiss and thrive,

For they are but whirling wind,

Out of memory and mind. 
They would make a prince decay
With light images of clay

Planted in the running wave;
Or, for many shapes they have,

They would change them into hounds
Until he had died of his wounds,

Though the change were but a whim;

Or they'd hurl a spell at him,

That he follow with desire

Bodies that can never tire

Or grow kind, for they anoint

All their bodies, joint by joint,
With a miracle-working juice

That is made out of the grease

Of the ungoverned unicorn. 

But the man is thrice forlorn,

Emptied, ruined, wracked and lost,
That they follow, for at most

They will give him kiss for kiss
While they murmur, 'After this
Hatred may be sweet to the taste.' 

– W.B. Yeats (1906)

Affinities

Vivienne Binns
Figure
1964
wash drawing
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Vivienne Binns
Figure
1964
wash drawing
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Shary Boyle
Interruption
2006
polymer clay, gouache, paper and thread
Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston, Ontario

Shary Boyle
Interruption
2006
polymer clay, gouache, paper and thread
Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston, Ontario

Thomas Hart Benton
Ex Libris - Ernest Gregor Small
ca. 1930
woodcut
New Britain Museum of American Art,
Connecticut

Thomas Hart Benton
Ex Libris - Mildred Benton Small
ca. 1930
woodcut
New Britain Museum of American Art,
Connecticut

Francisco Bayeu
Portrait of Feliciana Bayeu
1790
oil on canvas
Museo de Zaragoza

Francisco Bayeu
Portrait of Sebastiana Merclein
ca. 1780-85
oil on canvas
Museo de Zaragoza

Roger Bellemare
Regards et Jeux dans l'Espace no. 3
1999-2000
acrylic on paper
Musée National des Beaux-Arts du Québec

Roger Bellemare
Regards et Jeux dans l'Espace no. 6
1999-2000
acrylic on paper
Musée National des Beaux-Arts du Québec

Frédéric Bazille
Jeune homme nu couché sur l'herbe
1870
(Bazille died in the 1870 Franco-Prussian War at age 28)
oil on canvas
Musée Fabre, Montpellier

Frédéric Bazille
La Toilette
1869-70
oil on canvas
Musée Fabre, Montpellier

Giovanni Battista Betti
Portrait of artist Battista Naldini (died 1591)
ca. 1775
engraving
Kupferstichkabinett,
Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Dresden

Giovanni Battista Betti
Portrait of artist Antonis Mor (died 1576) 
ca. 1775
engraving
Kupferstichkabinett,
Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Dresden

Pierre Bernard
Portrait of Archduchess Marie Anne of Austria
(sister of Marie Antoinette)
1763
pastel and gouache on vellum
Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California

Pierre Bernard
Portrait of Archduchess Elisabeth of Austria
(sister of Marie Antoinette)
1763
pastel and gouache on vellum
Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California

Grandmother in the Garden

The grass below the willow
Of my daughter's wash is curled
With earthworms, and the world
Is measured into row on row
Of unspiced houses, painted to seem real.
The drugged Long Island summer sun drains
Pattern from those empty sleeves, beyond my grandson
Squealing in his pen. I have survived my life.
The yellow daylight lines the oak leaf
And the wire vines melt with the unchanged changes
Of the baby. My children have their husbands' hands.
My husband's framed, propped bald as a baby on their pianos,
My tremendous man. I close my eyes. And all the clothes
I have thrown out come back to me, the hollows
Of my daughter's slips . . . they drift; I see the sheer
Summer cottons drift, equivalent to air.

– Louise Glück (1968)