Tuesday, November 11, 2025

Modish

Frederic Clay Bartlett
Mrs Bartlett with a Dog
1931
oil on canvas
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC


Jean Béraud
Windy Day, Place de la Concorde
ca. 1890
oil on panel
Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts

Kees van Dongen
Femme du Monde
ca. 1929
oil on canvas
Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia

Guy Pène Du Bois
Juliana Force at the Whitney Studio Club
1921
oil on panel
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

José García Ramos
Lady with a Mask
ca. 1880
oil on canvas
Museo Bellver, Sevilla

Anselmo Guinea
Portrait of a Lady
1894
oil on canvas
Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao

Otto Gussmann
Woman with Flowers
1914
oil on canvas
Galerie Neue Meister (Albertinum), Dresden

Isaac Israëls
Study of a Woman
ca. 1905
oil on panel
Kunstmuseum, The Hague

Alex Katz
Black Dress (Christy Turlington)
2015
screenprint
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

George Lambert
The White Glove
1921
oil on canvas
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

Julie Moos
Mrs Rose and Mrs Pleasant
2001
C-print
Reynolda House Museum of American Art, Winston-Salem, North Carolina

Paul Outerbridge
Untitled
1941
tricolor carbro print
National Museum of American History, Washington DC

Martin Parr
The Allie Art Awards
2011
inkjet print
High Museum of Art, Atlanta

Robert Pearce
It's hard to imagine a world without fashion
1988
lithograph
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Lilly Martin Spencer
We Both Must Fade (Mrs Fithian)
1869
oil on canvas
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Alfred-Émile Léopold Stevens
Hesitation
ca. 1867
oil on panel
Art Institute of Chicago

Paul Tanqueray
Gertrude Lawrence
ca. 1920
gelatin silver print
Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Triumphal Song of the Roman Army

        A thousand, a thousand, a thousand,
        A thousand, a thousand, a thousand,
        We, with one warrior, have slain!
A thousand, a thousand, a thousand, a thousand,
Sing a thousand, over again!
        Soho! – let us sing
        Long life to our King,
Who knocked over a thousand so fine.
        Soho! – let us roar,
        He has given us more
        Red gallons of gore
Than all Syria can furnish of wine!

– war chant, as quoted by Flavius Vopiscus in his Life of Aurelian (AD 362-63), translated by Edgar Allan Poe (1836)