Sunday, January 18, 2026

Interior Dispositions

Samuel van Hoogstraten
View through a House
(Samuel Pepys saw and described this painting)
1662
oil on canvas
National Trust, Dyrham Park, Gloucestershire


George Pyne
Room of George James Drummond at Oxford
1853
watercolor and gouache on paper
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Titian Ramsay Peale
Music Room of Apartment in the Smithsonian for its Secretary
1862
albumen print
Smithsonian Archives, Washington DC

Franz Alt
Salon in Vienna
1872
watercolor and gouache on paper
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Frederic Shields
William Blake's Workroom and Deathroom
ca. 1880
watercolor on paper
Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington

Gustaf Cederström
Schoolroom
1889
oil on canvas
Prins Eugens Waldemarsudde, Stockholm

David Milne
Icebox and Kitchen Shelves
1919
watercolor on paper
Museum London, Ontario

Alexandre Benois
Study of Czar Alexander II, Gatchina Palace, Saint Petersburg
ca. 1920-30
watercolor and gouache on paper
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Stella Bowen
Paris Interior
1931
watercolor on board
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide

Beauford Delaney
Untitled
1948
oil on canvas
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Rudy Burckhardt
Helen Frankenthaler's first show at André Emmerich Gallery, New York
1959
gelatin silver print
Archives of American Art, Washington DC

Wayne Sorce
Untitled
ca. 1975
C-print
Art Institute of Chicago

Joanne Leonard
Manuel Neri's Kitchen
ca. 1980
gelatin silver print
Portland Museum of Art, Maine

Larry Sultan
Child's Room, Mulholland Drive
2001
C-print
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Angela Lorenz
Anatomical Theater, Bologna
2010
ink on paper
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Dale Kennington
Books and Business
2011
oil on canvas
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Jonas Wood
Inglewood Listing
2019
oil and acrylic on canvas
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

On Pallas Bathing, from a Hymn of Callimachus

Nor oils of balmy scent produce,
Nor mirror for Minerva's use
Ye nymphs who love her! she array'd
In genuine beauty, scorns their aid.
Not even when they left the skies
To seek on Ida's head the prize
From Paris' hand, did Juno deign,
Or Pallas in the chrystal plain
Of Simois' stream her locks to trace,
Or in the mirror's polish'd face,
Though Venus oft with anxious care
Adjusted twice a single hair.

– Callimachus (ca. 300-240 BC), translated by William Cowper (1799)