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| Robert Mangold Self Portrait in the Studio 1963 photographic print Archives of American Art, Washington DC |
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| Robert Mangold Sketch for Stairway Wall 1964 gouache and graphite on board Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Robert Mangold 4-Color Frame Painting #9 1964 acrylic and graphite on paper Guggenheim Museum, New York |
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| John Ferrari Robert Mangold holding a Drawing 1968 photographic print Archives of American Art, Washington DC |
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| Robert Mangold Distorted Circle within a Polygon 1972 acrylic and graphite on canvas Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, North Carolina |
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| Robert Mangold Distorted Square within a Circle 1 1973 screenprint Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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| Robert Mangold Distorted Square within a Circle 2 1973 screenprint Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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| Robert Mangold Distorted Square within a Circle 3 1973 screenprint Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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| Robert Mangold Distorted Square within a Circle 4 1973 screenprint Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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| Robert Mangold Circle In and Out of a Polygon 2 1973 graphite on paper Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Robert Mangold A Curved Diagonal within Two Distorted Rectangles 1978 acrylic and graphite on canvas Menil Collection, Houston |
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| Robert Mangold Installation Model 1978 acrylic and graphite on paperboard Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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| Robert Mangold Installation Model 1978 gouache and ink on shaped paperboard Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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| Robert Mangold X within X, Orange 1981 acrylic and graphite on paper Phillips Collection, Washington DC |
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| Robert Mangold Three Red X within X 1981 acrylic and graphite on canvas Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
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| Robert Mangold Green / 2 Orange X Painting 1983 acrylic and graphite on shaped canvas Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Robert Mangold Curved Plane / Figure VI 1995 acrylic and graphite on canvas Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York |
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| Robert Mangold Column Structure II 2006 acrylic and charcoal on canvas Tate Modern, London |
An Upset
Drowsing in bed alone, quite thoughtless of nights
When I didn't, an ominous crack, some loud low snaps
Like river ice breaking up
From the next room (lit still – I hadn't retired)
Swept me out there in time to watch my
Grandfather's table,
One of the pedestal's three
Leonine hips
Disjointed under mounting stress,
Collapse.
It could have been
The old man felled anew
Seen through a thaw
Of pain – struck broadside, banks whose failure
Sent slowly crashing full
Ashtray, lamp, magnifying glass and – no! –
Liszt; Les Dieux; The Japanese Tattoo;
Babel's Collected Stories; Last
Poems; Thinking and Writing (boxed together);
Animal Farm; A little Boy Lost – to name just a few.
Whew. A disaster zone
Facing therapy: sandpaper, clamps and glue,
Jetsam and overflow's diversion to shelves
Unbuilt, if not to plain
Oblivion . . .
Another "flood" behind us,
Now to relearn
Uprightness, lightness, poise:
First things – the lamp supposes, prone
Yet burning wildly on.
– James Merrill (1985)