Saturday, October 18, 2025

Ornamental

Filippo Juvarra
Stage Design with Dome and Fountain
before 1736
drawing
British Museum


Ferdinand Kobell
Tomb under Willows
1782
etching
British Museum

Jean-Jacques Lagrenée
Apollo crowning the Arts of Painting and Sculpture
1784
etching and aquatint
British Museum

Shunshō Katsukawa
Actor Ichikawa Danzo IV in Shibaraku role
before 1792
pigment and ink on paper
Asian Art Museum, San Francisco

Pierre-Louis de La Rive
Mount Blanc at Sunset
1802
oil on canvas
Musées d'Art et d'Histoire, Genève

Louis Lafitte
Atlas
1811
drawing
(design for medallion)
British Museum

Louis Lafitte
Atlas
1811
drawing
(design for medallion)
British Museum

Eugène-Louis Lami
Family on a Pleasure Boat
ca. 1870
watercolor and gouache on paper
British Museum

Guillermo Kahlo (father of Frida)
Iglesia La Enseñanza, Mexico City
ca. 1907
gelatin silver print
Art Institute of Chicago

Guillermo Kahlo (father of Frida)
Templo San Francisco Acatepec, near Puebla
ca. 1907
gelatin silver print
Art Institute of Chicago

František Kupka
Arabesques II
ca. 1925-26
oil on canvas
Guggenheim Museum, New York

Lawrence Kupferman
American Gothic
1937
drypoint
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

E. McKnight Kauffer
Organic Design in Home Furnishings
1941
screenprint (exhibition poster)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Jeannette Klute
Beech Fern
ca. 1950-60
dye transfer print
Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia

Tibor Kalman
Advertisement for fashion designer Isaac Mizrahi
ca. 1991
offset-lithograph
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Robert Kushner
Zinnias
2000
screenprint
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Bruce Kittredge
Peony Border, Bartlett Garden, Stamford, Connecticut
2007
35mm color slide
Archives of American Gardens, Washington DC

from An Hymn of the Fairest Fair

    Sad queen of silence, I ne'er see thy face
To wax, or wane, or shine with a full grace,
But straight amazed on man I think, each day
His state who changeth, or, if he find stay,
It is in dreary anguish, cares, and pains,
And of his labours death is all the gains.
Immortal monarch, can so fond a thought
Lodge in my breast, as to trust thou first brought
Here in Earth's shady cloister wretched man,
To suck the air of woe, to spend life's span
'Midst sighs and plaints, a stranger unto mirth?
To give himself his death, rebuking birth?
By sense and wit of crëatures made king,
By sense and wit to live their underling?

– William Drummond of Hawthornden (1630)