Sunday, November 24, 2024

Dance Artifacts

Léon Bellefleur
Dance of the Drowned
1950
oil on board
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa

Peter Dixon
Philippa's Electronic Dance Ensemble
ca. 1973
screenprint (poster)
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Deborah Klein
The Dance
1997
linocut
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Carlo Leonetti
Ruth St Denis and Ted Shawn
1925
gelatin silver print
Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington

Florence Martin
Costume Design for ballet Obsessions
ca. 1939-40
gouache on paper
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

David McDiarmid
Gay Liberation Fund Raising Dance
ca. 1973
screenprint (poster)
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Carlos Mérida
Dance Sequence no. 3
1949
oil on canvas
Phoenix Art Museum, Arizona

Cleon Peterson
The Devil Made Me Do It
2021
screenprint (poster)
Denver Art Museum

John Wardell Power
Dancer
1938
oil on canvas
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide

Mabel Alington Royds
Tightrope Dancer
before 1920
color woodblock print
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa

Jan Sluijters
Portrait  of a Woman (Dancer)
1921
oil on canvas
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam

David Henry Souter
Dancer on Stage
ca. 1910
drawing
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Karl Struss
Bermuda, Dancers
1914
platinum print
Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Abraham Walkowitz
Isadora Duncan
ca. 1927
ink and watercolor on paper
Dallas Museum of Art

Abraham Walkowitz
Isadora Duncan
ca. 1927
ink and watercolor on paper
Huntington Museum of Art, Huntington, West Virginia

Malcah Zeldis
Rita
1988
oil on board
Akron Art Museum, Ohio

from Descending Figure

2. The Sick Child
             – Rijksmuseum 

A small child
is ill, has wakened.
It is winter, past midnight
in Antwerp. Above a wooden chest
the stars shine.
And the child
relaxes in her mother's arms.
The mother does not sleep:
she stares
fixedly into the bright museum.
By spring the child will die. 
Then it is wrong, wrong
to hold her –
Let her be alone,
without memory, as the others wake
terrified, scraping the dark
paint from their faces.

– Louise Glück (1980)