Tuesday, January 27, 2026

Luminous

Stanislav Libenský
Green Eye of the Pyramid
1993-97
cast glass
Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia


Karen LaMonte
Dress VIII
2002
cast glass
Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia

Dick Hanley
Lobby Interior, Pan Am Building, New York
ca. 1964
gelatin silver print
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Anonymous Photographer
Court House in Norfolk on Taft Day
1909
gelatin silver print
Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia

Mabel Dwight
Summer Evening
ca. 1945
lithograph
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Joan Jonas
Twilight
1975
gelatin silver print
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
 
Dagobert Peche for Wiener Werkstätte
Electric Chandelier
1923
silvered bronze
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Robert Longo
Untitled (Hercules)
2008
charcoal on paper
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Ralph Eugene Meatyard
Cranston Ritchie with Pitcher
ca. 1956
gelatin silver print
Art Institute of Chicago

Simon Fokke
Figures at the Gates of Hell
before 1784
etching
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Fidus (Hugo Höppener)
Prayer of Light
1927
offset-print
(postcard printed in Berlin)
private collection

John Hertzberg
Still Life
ca. 1929
gelatin silver print
Moderna Museet, Stockholm

Hiroshi Sugimoto
Lightning Fields 225
2009
gelatin silver print
Victoria & Albert Museum, London

Henri Mallard
Still Life
1959
gelatin silver print
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

Harold Edgerton
Untitled (Dynamite Cap Explosion)
1956
gelatin silver print
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

James Casebere
Tunnel with Bright Hole
1998
C-print
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Cornelis Bloemaert after Gerrit van Honthorst
Maid lighting a Lantern
(printed couplet concerns sexual availability)
ca. 1625
etching and engraving
Centraal Museum, Utrecht

Upon a maid that dyed the day she was marryed

That Morne which saw me made a Bride,
The Ev'ning witnest that I dy'd.
Those holy lights, wherewith they guide
Unto the bed the bashfull Bride;
Serv'd, but as Tapers, for to burne,
And light my Reliques to their Urne.
This Epitaph, which here you see,
Supply'd the Epithalamie.

– Meleager (140-70 BC), translated by Robert Herrick (1648)