Saturday, September 13, 2025

Robert Bruce Inverarity

Robert Bruce Inverarity
Morris Graves and Malcolm Roberts
ca. 1936
tricolor carbro print
Archives of American Art, Washington DC


Robert Bruce Inverarity
Morris Graves
1938
gelatin silver print
Archives of American Art, Washington DC

Robert Bruce Inverarity
Self Portrait
1938
gelatin silver print
Archives of American Art, Washington DC

Robert Bruce Inverarity
Carl Morris
1939
gelatin silver print
Archives of American Art, Washington DC

Robert Bruce Inverarity
Joe Knowles
ca. 1940
gelatin silver print
Archives of American Art, Washington DC

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Suzy Perit
ca. 1940
gelatin silver print
Archives of American Art, Washington DC

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Hilaire Hiler
1947
gelatin silver print
Archives of American Art, Washington DC

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Howard Warshaw
1947
gelatin silver print
Archives of American Art, Washington DC

Robert Bruce Inverarity
James Fitzsimmons
1948
gelatin silver print
Archives of American Art, Washington DC

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Jane Inverarity
1948
gelatin silver print
Archives of American Art, Washington DC

Robert Bruce Inverarity
Helen Lundberg
1948
gelatin silver print
Archives of American Art, Washington DC

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Dorothea Tanning
1948
gelatin silver print
Archives of American Art, Washington DC

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Man Ray
1948
gelatin silver print
Archives of American Art, Washington DC

Robert Bruce Inverarity
Stanton Macdonald-Wright
1948
gelatin silver print
Archives of American Art, Washington DC

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John Haley
1949
gelatin silver print
Archives of American Art, Washington DC

Robert Bruce Inverarity
Dorothy Royer
1949
gelatin silver print
Archives of American Art, Washington DC

Chorus from Thyestes
 
'Tis not wealth that makes a king,
Nor the purple's colouring,
Nor a brow that's bound with gold,
Nor gates on mighty hinges rolled.

The king is he, who void of fear,
Looks abroad with bosom clear;
Who can tread ambition down,
Nor be sway'd by smile or frown;
Nor for all the treasure cares,
That mine conceals, or harvest wears,
Or that golden sands deliver,
Bosom'd in a glassy river.

What shall move his placid might?
Not the headlong thunderlight,
Nor the storm that rushes out
To snatch the shivering waves about,
Nor all the shapes of slaughter's trade
With forward lance or fiery blade.
Safe, with wisdom on his crown,
He looks on all things calmly down,
He welcomes fate, when fate is near,
Nor taints his dying breath with fear.

– Seneca (4 BC-AD 65), translated by Leigh Hunt (1814)