Saturday, August 2, 2025

Lucien Aigner - The Thirties

Lucien Aigner
Politicians conferring, Paris
1931
gelatin silver print
National Museum of American History, Washington DC


Lucien Aigner
Beauty Contestant
1932
gelatin silver print
National Museum of American History, Washington DC

Lucien Aigner
Self Portrait
1932
gelatin silver print
National Museum of American History,
Washington DC

Lucien Aigner
Marlene Dietrich at Hungarian Restaurant, Paris
1933
gelatin silver print
National Museum of American History, Washington DC

Lucien Aigner
Cars and Flags in Danzig
(Nazi Demonstration)
1933
gelatin silver print
National Museum of American History, Washington DC

Lucien Aigner
Luxembourg Gardens, Paris
1934
gelatin silver print
National Museum of American History,
Washington DC

Lucien Aigner
Dancers, Opera Ballet, Paris
1934
gelatin silver print
National Museum of American History, Washington DC

Lucien Aigner
Diplomats conferring at the League of Nations, Geneva
1935
gelatin silver print
National Museum of American History, Washington DC

Lucien Aigner
Police at Football Match
1935
gelatin silver print
National Museum of American History, Washington DC

Lucien Aigner
Winston Churchill
1935
gelatin silver print
National Museum of American History, Washington DC

Lucien Aigner
Parents of competing Tenors
1936
gelatin silver print
National Museum of American History,
Washington DC

Lucien Aigner
Hitler at the Winter Olympics
1936
gelatin silver print
(version cropped by Aigner)
National Museum of American History, Washington DC

Lucien Aigner
Fiorello LaGuardia, Mayor of New York
1936
gelatin silver print
National Museum of American History, Washington DC

Lucien Aigner
Country Visitors to Paris on Boulevard Saint-Martin
1937
gelatin silver print
National Museum of American History, Washington DC

Lucien Aigner
Parents at Graduation Ceremony, St Cyr Military College
1937
gelatin silver print
National Museum of American History, Washington DC

Lucien Aigner
Ruth St Denis approaching Altar
1938
gelatin silver print
National Museum of American History,
Washington DC

from The Art of Poetry

                              It hath beene ever free,
And ever will, to utter termes that bee 
Stamp'd to the time. As woods whose change appeares
Still in their leaves, throughout the sliding yeares,
The first borne dying; so the aged state
Of words decay, and phrases borne but late
Like tender buds shoot up, and freshly grow.
Our selves, and all that's ours, to death we owe:
Whether the Sea receiv'd unto the shore,
That from the North, the Navie safe doth store,
A kingly worke; or that long barren fen
Once rowable, but now doth nourish men
In neighbour-townes, and feeles the weightie plough;
Or the wilde river, who hath changed now
His course so hurtfull both to graine, and seedes,
Being taught a better way. All mortall deeds
Shall perish: so farre off it is, the state,
Or grace of speech, should hope a lasting date.
Much phrase that now is dead, shall be reviv'd;
And much shall dye, that now is nobly liv'd,
If Custome please; at whose disposing still
The power, and rule of speaking resteth still.

– Horace (65-8 BC), translated by Ben Jonson (1604)

Friday, August 1, 2025

Raking (R)

Anders Zorn
Mary Hardin
ca. 1895
etching
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC


Hieronymus Wierix after Johannes Stradanus
Saxo
(series, Horses of the Emperor Charles V)
1578
engraving
Herzog August Bibliothek, Wulfenbüttel

Raffaello Vanni
Reclining Model
ca. 1628
drawing
British Museum

William Strang
Bather
1882
etching
British Museum

Frederick Sandys
Jacob hearing the Voice of the Lord
(print study for Dalziels Bible Gallery)
1865
drawing
British Museum

Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Study of Antique Sculpture
1879
drawing
British Museum

James Pradier
Odalisque
1841
marble
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon

Ralph Moses
For that "Tired Feeling" -
Breathe Fresh Air, Avoid Drafts

ca. 1930
lithograph (poster)
Allard Pierson Museum, Amsterdam

Giuseppe Maria Mitelli
Iconoclast destroying Classical Statue
ca. 1678-80
engraving
British Museum

Alessandro Magnasco
Two Monks Running
before 1749
drawing
British Museum

Elaine Lustig Cohen
Futurist Photography
1990
lithograph (exhibition announcement)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Charles-Émile Jacque after Jusepe de Ribera
Liseur (effet de lumière)
1845
etching
British Museum

Franz Théobald Horny
Study of an Italian Woman
before 1824
drawing
Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Werner Hopmann
Joseph Goebbels
1933
etching
(commissioned by Time magazine)
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

Leendert van der Cooghen
Classical Warrior
1666
etching
British Museum

Jules Chevrier
A Drunken Bacchante
1864
etching
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa

Sigismondo Caula
Figure kneeling before Crucifix
ca. 1670
drawing
British Museum

Bordeaux mixture, of lime and copper sulphate, to kill fungus and insect parasites on plants
border (typ.), an ornament
bordereau (Fr. m.), a memorandum, docket
borderland (one word)
Borders, a region of Scotland
Boreas (Gr. myth.), god of the north wind
Borehamwood, Herts.
Borghese, Italian family
Borgia (Cesare), 1476-1507; – (Lucrezia), 1480-1519
born/, of child, with reference to birth, abbr. b.; -e, carried, also of birth when 'by' (with name of mother) follows
born/é (Fr.), fem. -ée, narrow-minded
Borodin (Alexander Porfiryevich), 1834-87, Russian composer and chemist
boron, symbol B
borough, abbr. bor.
Borstal, institution for reformative training (cap.)
bortsch, Russian soup
borzoi/, Russian wolfhound; pl. -s

The Oxford Dictionary for Writers and Editors, compiled by the Oxford English Dictionary Department, Oxford University Press (12th edition, 1981)

Shepherds

Giuseppe Bernardino Bison
Shepherd in Landscape with Ruins
ca. 1810
drawing
Morgan Library, New York

Hermann Blumenthal
Campagna Shepherd
1937
bronze
Kunsthalle Mannheim

François Boucher
Shepherd in a Landscape
ca. 1751
oil on canvas
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Caen

Jean-Antoine Constantin
Shepherd departing from the Ruins of the Forum
ca. 1770-80
drawing
Morgan Library, New York

William Holman Hunt
Study for The Hireling Shepherd
1852
drawing
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

Constantin Hansen
Shepherd within Temple at Paestum
1854
oil on canvas
Nasjonalmuseet, Oslo

Jean Lemaire
Shepherd among Ruins
ca. 1630
oil on canvas
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

Alexei Savrasov
Shepherd beneath Oaks
1860
oil on canvas
State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow

Parmigianino (Francesco Mazzola)
Arcadian Scene with Two Shepherds
ca. 1535
drawing
Hamburger Kunsthalle

Andries Cornelis Lens
Apulian Shepherd transformed into an Olive Tree
(scene from The Metamorphoses of Ovid)
ca. 1765
oil on canvas
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

Marco Sammartino
Shepherdess playing Flute
ca. 1650-70
etching
Hamburger Kunsthalle

Jacob Adriaensz Backer
Shepherdess
ca. 1640
oil on panel
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco

Govert Flinck
Portrait of a Woman as a Shepherdess
1636
oil on canvas
Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum, Braunschweig

Joseph-Charles Marin
Shepherd and Shepherdess
ca. 1790-1800
terracotta
Art Institute of Chicago

Hans Unger
Shepherds on the Seashore
1893
oil on canvas
Galerie Neue Meister (Albertinum), Dresden

Carl Larsson
Shepherdess
1888
oil on canvas
(sketch for mural)
Prins Eugens Waldemarsudde, Stockholm

"This is all very well, Sisimithres," retorted Hydaspes, "the kind of thing one might expect from an impassioned advocate rather than from a judge.  But beware lest, in answering one point, you raise another question, a serious one that is far from easy for my consort to answer: how could we, Ethiopians both, produce, contrary to all probability, a white daughter?"

Sisimithres shot him a wry glance and said with a slightly condescending smile: "I do not know what is wrong with you.  It is not like you to criticize me for an advocacy that I see no reason to regret.  We define the true judge as the one who advocates justice.  In the end you will probably think me as much your advocate as the girl's, for, with the god's help, I shall prove that you are a father, and I shall not forsake the daughter whom I preserved for you in her cradle now that she is safely restored in adulthood.  But think what you will about us, for we attach no importance to it.  We do not live to please others: our only goal is perfect virtue, and if our own consciences are satisfied, it is enough.  In any case, the solution to the problem about the color of her skin is contained in the band, where Persinna here admits to having absorbed certain images and visual forms of resemblance from the picture of Andromeda that she saw while having intercourse with you.  If you desire further confirmation, the exemplar is at hand.  Take a close look at Andromeda, and you will find that she is reproduced in this girl exactly as she appears in the painting." 

At a word of command from the king, the attendants went to take down the picture, which they brought and set up next to Charikleia.  This occasioned universal cheering and acclaim: those members of the crowd with the slightest understanding of what was being said and done explained it to their neighbors, and the exactitude of the likeness struck them with delighted astonishment.  Even Hydaspes could hold out no longer in his disbelief but stood motionless awhile, possessed by a mixture of joy and amazement.

– Heliodorus, from The Aethiopica, or, Theagenes and Charikleia (3rd or 4th century AD), translated from Greek by J.R. Morgan (1989)

Nauman

Bruce Nauman
Self Portrait as a Fountain
1966
dye transfer print
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra


Bruce Nauman
Eye-Level Piece
1966
painted cardboard
Dallas Museum of Art

Bruce Nauman
From Hand to Mouth
1967
wax
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC

Bruce Nauman
The true artist helps the world
by revealing mystic truths

1967
neon
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Bruce Nauman
Dance or Exercise on the Perimeter of a Square
(Square Dance)

1967-68
film still
Art Institute of Chicago

Elayne Varian
Bruce Nauman
ca. 1969
gelatin silver print
Archives of American Art, Washington DC

Bruce Nauman
Perfect Door - Perfect Odor - Perfect Rodo
1972
neon
Dallas Museum of Art

Bruce Nauman
SUGAR / RAGUS
1973
lithograph and screenprint
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Gianfranco Gorgoni
Bruce Nauman
1975
gelatin silver print
Princeton University Art Museum

Bruce Nauman
Malice
ca. 1980
neon
Archives of American Art, Washington DC

Bruce Nauman
Diamond Africa with Chair Tuned D E A D
1981
steel and cast iron
Art Institute of Chicago

Bruce Nauman
Human Nature / Life Death
1983
neon
Art Institute of Chicago

Bruce Nauman
White Anger - Red Danger - Yellow Peril - Black Death
1984
acrylic, pastel and collage on paper
Art Institute of Chicago

Bruce Nauman
Self Portrait
1990
drypoint
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

Bruce Nauman
Installation of Animal Pyramid at Des Moines Art Center
ca. 1990
gelatin silver print
Archives of American Art, Washington DC

Bruce Nauman
Hand Circle
1995
Polaroid
(wax patterns for bronze sculpture)
Archives of American Art, Washington DC

Bruce Nauman
Hand Circle
1996
bronze
Indianapolis Museum of Art

from Horace His Art of Poetry, Imitated in English

Should some ill Painter in a wild design
To a mans Head an Horses shoulders joyn,
Or Fishes Tail to a fair Womans Waste,
Or draw the Limbs of many a different Beast, 
Ill matched, and with as motly Feathers drest;
If you by chance were to pass by his Shop;
Could you forbear from laughing at the Fop,
And not believe him whimsical or mad?
Credit me, Sir, that Book is quite as bad,
As worthy laughter, which throughout is filled
With monstrous inconsistencies, more vain and wild
Than sick mens Dreams, whose neither head, nor tail,
Nor any parts in due proportion fall. 

– Horace (65-8 BC), translated by John Oldham (1681)