Sunday, October 12, 2025

Forthright

Adam Camerarius
Portrait of a Young Man in Antique Dress
ca. 1650-60
oil on canvas
Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston, Ontario


Kristin Capp
Annie Hofer
1996
pigment print
Wright Museum of Art, Beloit, Wisconsin

Jacques Beltrand
Descartes
ca. 1920-40
chiaroscuro woodcut
Wichita Art Museum, Kansas

Ilse Bing
Portrait of a Woman
1934
gelatin silver print
Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia

Ernest Baker
Benito Mussolini
1941
gouache on board
(commissioned by Time magazine)
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

Rufus J. Anson
Portrait of Sarah C. Wright, age 13
1858
daguerreotype
Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia

Federico Barocci
Portrait of Monsignor Giuliano della Rovere
ca. 1595
oil on canvas
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

Friedrich Bury
Kurprinzessin Auguste von Hessen-Kassel
1808
oil on canvas
Museumslandschaft, Hessen-Kassel

Jacques-François Arnaud
Portrait of Pierre-François Pillard
ca. 1765
oil on canvas
Musée Saint-Loup, Troyes

Marcello Bacciarelli
Self Portrait with Papal Medal
ca. 1800
oil on canvas
Musée Fesch, Ajaccio, Corsica

Wilhelm Ferdinand Bendz
Portrait of a Young Woman
1827
oil on canvas
Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen

Hendrick Bloemaert
Virgin and Child
ca. 1635-40
oil on canvas
Centraal Museum, Utrecht

Giovanni Cariani
Portrait of a Man with Gold Chain
ca. 1525-30
oil on canvas
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh

Samuel Woolf
Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins
1933
charcoal on paper
(commissioned by Time magazine)
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

Boris Artzybasheff
Portrait of architect Minoru Yamasaki 
1962
tempera on board
(commissioned by Time magazine)
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

Pieter Barbiers III
Portrait of Maria Geertruida Snabilié
1826
oil on canvas
Rijksmuseum, Twenthe

William Yang
Patrick White #1, Living Room, Martin Road
1988
gelatin silver print
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane

from The Thebiad

Sacred thro' time, from age to age it stood,
A wide-spread, gloomy, venerable wood:
Older than man, and ev'ry sylvan maid,
Who haunts the grot, or skims along the glade.
Stretch'd o'er the ground the tow'ring oaks were seen,
The foodful beech, and cypress ever green:
The nuptial elm, and mountain-holm entire,
The pitchy tree that feeds the fun'ral fire:
The resin soft, and solitary yew,
For ever dropping with unwholesome dew;
The poplar trembling o'er the silver flood,
The warrior ash that reeks in hostile blood,
Th' advent'rous firr that sails the vast profound,
And pine, fresh bleeding from th' odorous wound –
All at one time the nodding forests bend,
And with a crash together all descend.

– Statius (AD 45-96), translated by Walter Harte (1727)