Monday, December 2, 2024

Hartley - Embriachi - Garwood - Faed

Marsden Hartley
Movement no. 9
1916
oil on paper, mounted on panel
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis

Marsden Hartley
Pink Begonias
1928-29
oil on panel
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Marsden Hartley
Red Tree
1910
oil on board
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Marsden Hartley
Self Portrait
1908
drawing
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Embriachi Workshop
Portable Altarpiece - Virgin and Child with Saints
ca. 1390-1430
carved bone and wood
Nasher Museum of Art, Durham, North Carolina

Embriachi Workshop
Portable Altarpiece - Crucifixion with Saints
ca. 1390-1430
carved bone and wood
Nasher Museum of Art, Durham, North Carolina

Embriachi Workshop
Portable Altarpiece - Scenes from Lives of Christ and of Saints
ca. 1390-1400
carved bone and wood
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Embriachi Workshop
Cabinet Frontal
(assembled from fragments of two Embriachi caskets)
ca. 1400-1410
carved bone and wood
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Tirzah Garwood (Tirzah Ravilious)
Cactus Plants
1930
wood-engraving
private collection

Tirzah Garwood (Tirzah Ravilious)
The Crocodile
ca. 1935
wood-engraving
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Tirzah Garwood (Tirzah Ravilious)
The Dog Show
ca. 1935
wood-engraving
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Tirzah Garwood (Tirzah Ravilious)
The Train Journey
1939
wood-engraving
private collection

Thomas Faed
Mother and Child
ca. 1872
drawing
(print study)
British Museum

Thomas Faed
Study of Young Woman
1871
drawing
British Museum

Thomas Faed
Study of Young Woman
ca. 1850
drawing
Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh

Thomas Faed
The Old Fence
before 1900
watercolor on paper
Art Institute of Chicago

from Winter Morning

1.
Today, when I woke up, I asked myself
why did Christ die? Who knows
the meaning of such questions? 

It was a winter morning, unbelievably cold.
So the thoughts went on,
from each question came
another question, like a twig from a branch,
like a branch from a black trunk.

2.
At a time like this
a young woman traveled through the desert settlements
looking neither forward nor backward,
sitting in perfect composure on the tired animal
as the child stirred, still sealed in its profound attachment –
The husband walked slightly ahead, older, out of place;
increasingly, the mule stumbled, the path becoming
difficult in darkness, though they persisted
in a world like our world, not ruled 
by men but by a statue in heaven –

– Louise Glück (1985)