Sunday, January 25, 2026

Mixed Thirties

Martin Munkácsi
Jumping a Puddle
1934
gelatin silver print
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York


John Piper
Black Ground (Screen for the Sea)
1938
oil on canvas
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh

László Moholy-Nagy
La Sarraz
1930
collage, watercolor, gouache, ink and graphite on paper
Guggenheim Museum, New York

Man Ray
The Model
1933
gelatin silver print
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Gabriele Münter
Snow-Covered Pine
1933
oil on panel
Guggenheim Museum, New York

Brassaï
Nude
ca. 1933
gelatin silver print
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Ilse Bing
Coat of Arms
1933
gelatin silver print
Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York

George Platt Lynes
Christopher Isherwood
1939
gelatin silver print
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Taro Okamoto
Boutique Foraine
1937
oil on canvas
Guggenheim Museum, New York

Georgia O'Keeffe
The Mountain, New Mexico
1931
oil on canvas
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Nickolas Muray
Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo hosting friends in Mexico City
1938
gelatin silver print
Archives of American Art, Washington DC

Lee Miller
Self Portrait
1932
gelatin silver print
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh

Anton Refregier
Study for Mural at New York World's Fair
1939
oil on paper
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Winifred Nicholson
Jake and Kate on the Isle of Wight
1931
oil on canvas
Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh

Ben Nicholson
Still Life
1932
oil on incised wood
Guggenheim Museum, New York

Walker Evans
Subway Passengers
ca. 1938
gelatin silver print
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Pablo Picasso
Cortège
1933
watercolor and ink on paper
Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York

    Therefore that Miracles have been I do believe, that they may yet be wrought by the living I do not deny: but have no confidence in those which are fathered on the dead, and this hath ever made me suspect the efficacy of reliques, to examine the bones, question the habits and appertinencies of Saints, and even of Christ himself.  I cannot conceive why the Cross that Helena found and whereon Christ himself died should have power to restore others unto life.  I excuse not Constantine from a fall off his horse or a mischief from his enemies upon the wearing those nails on his bridle which our Saviour bore upon the Cross in his hands.  I compute among your Piae Fraudes, nor many degrees before consecrated swords and roses, that which Baldwin, King of Jerusalem returned the Genovese for their cost and pains in his war, to wit the ashes of John the Baptist.  Those that hold the sanctity of their souls doth leave behind a tincture and sacred faculty in their bodies speak naturally of Miracles, and do not salve the doubt.  

– Sir Thomas Browne, from Religio Medici (1642)