Thursday, August 28, 2025

Expectedness (Sixties)

Francis Bacon
Triptych
1967
oil on canvas
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC


David Bailey
Goodbye Baby and Amen (Penelope Tree)
1969
gelatin silver print
Victoria & Albert Museum, London

Sydney Ball
Banyon Wall
1967-68
acrylic on canvas
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide

Elmer Bischoff
Figures: Back and Profile
1960
oil on canvas
Phillips Collection, Washington DC

Elmer Bischoff
Two Bathers
1960
oil on canvas
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Ilya Bolotowsky
Red, Yellow, White Diamond
1969
acrylic on canvas
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC

Christo (Christo Javacheff)
Package
1961
fabric and rope
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Robert Colescott
The Virgin Queen
ca. 1965
oil on canvas
Tacoma Art Museum, Washington State

Roy De Forest
Recollections of a Sword Swallower
1968
acrylic and glitter on canvas
Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, California

Roy De Forest
Silas Newcastle Goes Down
1966
acrylic on canvas
San Jose Museum of Art, California

Willem De Kooning
Woman
1962
oil on paper, mounted on board
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC

Sonia Delaunay
Rythme Couleur
1961
gouache on paper
Phillips Collection, Washington DC

Burhan Dogançay
Walls V-II
1969
lithograph
Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas

Robert Remsen Vickrey
America's Atomic Arsenal
1963
tempera on board
(commissioned by Time magazine)
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

Robert Remsen Vickrey
Twenty-Five and Under
1966
tempera and ink on board
(commissioned by Time magazine)
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

Tom Wesselmann
3-D Drawing (for Still Life no. 42)
1964
assemblage of objects gessoed, painted and mounted on wood panel
Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, Texas

Zao Wou-ki
Composition
1967
lithograph
Moderna Museet, Stockholm

BYRON, GEORGE GORDON, LORD (1788-1824) – Usually much undervalued as a prosodist, even by those who admire him as a poet.  Really of great importance in this respect, owing to the variety, and in some cases novelty, of his accomplishment, and to its immense popularity.  His Spenserians in Childe Harold not of the highest class, but the light octaves of Beppo and Don Juan the very best examples of the metre in English.  Some fine but rhetorical blank verse, and a great deal of fluent octosyllabic couplet imitated from Scott.  But his lyrics of most importance, combining popular appeal with great variety, and sometimes positive novelty, of adjustment and cadence.  Diction is his weakest point. 

– George Saintsbury, from Historical Manual of English Prosody (1910)