Deploying Red

Francesco Albani
St Ursula
ca. 1640
oil on canvas
Alte Pinakothek, Munich

Edward Burne-Jones
Love
ca. 1880-90
watercolor on paper
(design for needlework)
Victoria & Albert Museum, London

William Nicholson and James Pryde
Harper's Magazine
1895
lithograph (poster)
Kunstbibliothek, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Albert Knab
Die Woche (magazine)
ca. 1899-1903
lithograph (poster)
Kunstbibliothek, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Alexei von Jawlensky
Young Woman with Flowered Hat
1910
oil on cardboard
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Hollerbaum & Schmidt (printers)
Hexenfeuer (motion picture)
1912
lithograph (poster)
Kunstbibliothek, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Richard Mortensen
Ajaccio
1959
oil on canvas
Museum Ludwig, Cologne

Arne Ekeland
In the Hall of the Mountain King
1964
acrylic on paper
Stavanger Kunstmuseum, Norway

Leonard Rickhard
Evening Sun
1973-74
oil on canvas
Nasjonalmuseet, Oslo

Ola Billgren
Osteria
1994
oil on canvas
Nasjonalmuseet, Oslo

Atle Folstad
Untitled
1994
gouache on paper
KORO (Public Art Norway), Oslo

Grethe Unstad
Lemon
1998
oil on canvas
KORO (Public Art Norway), Oslo

Ina van Zyl
Vine Tomatoes
2005
oil on canvas
Dordrechts Museum

Snorre Ytterstad
Study of the Red Square:
Painterly Realism of a Peasant Woman in Two Dimensions
2011
acrylic on plywood
Nasjonalmuseet, Oslo

Hanne Borchgrevink
Red House Shape
2013
color woodblock print
Lillehammer Kunstmuseum, Norway

Reidun Tordhol
Still Life
2014
oil on canvas
Lillehammer Kunstmuseum, Norway

from Red Stains

In a pyloned desert where the scorpion reigns
My love and I plucked poppies breathing tales
Of crimes now long asleep, whose once-red stains
Dyed stabbing men, at sea with bloody sails.

– Allen Tate (1919)