Ornamental

Giovanni Antonio da Brescia
Ornamental Figures in Spandrel
ca. 1510-20
engraving
(unique impression)
British Museum

Aloisio Giovannoli
after Cornelis Floris the Younger
Grotesque Mask
ca. 1600
etching
British Museum

Aloisio Giovannoli
after Cornelis Floris the Younger
Grotesque Mask
ca. 1600
etching
British Museum

Willem Claesz Heda
Still Life with Fruit Pie
1634
oil on panel
Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid

Sebastián de Herrera Barnuevo
Design for Cupola Decoration
ca. 1660-70
drawing
British Museum

Gravelot (Hubert-François Bourguignon)
Ornamental Frame for portrait of George Frideric Handel
ca. 1737-38
drawing (print study)
British Museum

Bernard Hall
After Dinner
ca. 1901
oil on canvas
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide

Childe Hassam
Allied Flags - Union League Club
1917
oil on canvas
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Anton Hanak
Study for Monument to Gustav Mahler
ca. 1925-30
drawing
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Anton Hanak
Study for Monument to Beethoven
ca. 1928-33
drawing
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Anton Hanak
Study for Monument to Richard Wagner
ca. 1931-33
drawing
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Duncan Grant
The Mermaid
1930
watercolor on paper
British Council Collection, London

Sylvia Hahn
Basswood
1945
wood-engraving
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto

Jeremiah Goodman
Wall Arrangement for Sitting Room
ca. 1948
drawing
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Milton Glaser
The Society of Newspaper Design
1989
offset-lithograph (poster)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

David Lance Goines
Napa Valley Wine Auction
1996
offset-lithograph (poster)
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Franck Gohier
The Bamboo Lounge
2000
screenprint
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Madrigal

This life which seems so fair

Is like a bubble blown up in the air

By sporting children's breath,

Who chase it everywhere,

And strive who can most motion it bequeath:

And thou it sometime seem of its own might,

Like to an eye of gold, to be fixed there,

And firm to hover in that empty height,

That only is because it is so light.

But in that pomp it doth not long appear;

    For even when most admired, it in a thought,

    As swelled from nothing, doth dissolve in nought. 

– William Drummond of Hawthornden (ca. 1614)