Vases

Félix Del Marle
Chemin de fer
1914
watercolor, gouache and ink on paper
Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York

Arthur Tress
Act I: Birth of Ideas
1980
C-print
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Anonymous French Makers
Lidded Vase
ca. 1680
amethyst with enameled-gold and silver-gilt mounts
(collection of Louis XIV)
Musée du Louvre

Lady Ottoline Morrell
By the Pool at Garsington
ca. 1916
gelatin silver print
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Kenneth Price
Deep Heat
2004
acrylic and ink on paper
Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York

Arthur Tress
Act I: Birth of Ideas: Beauty
1980
C-print
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Anonymous French Makers
Lidded Vase
ca. 1550
agate with silver-gilt mounts
(collection of Louis XIV)
Musée du Louvre

Lady Ottoline Morrell
By the Pool at Garsington
ca. 1916
gelatin silver print
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Keith Haring
Apocalypse 1
1988
screenprint
Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York

Arthur Tress
Act II: The Voyage
1980
C-print
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Anonymous French Makers
Pair of Lidded Vases
ca. 1770
porphyry with ormolu mounts
Musée du Louvre

Lady Ottoline Morrell
By the Pool at Garsington
ca. 1916
gelatin silver print
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Eugene Von Bruenchenhein
Untitled
1954
oil on cardboard
Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin

Arthur Tress
Act III: The Final Judgement
1980
C-print
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Anonymous French Makers
Pair of Lidded Vases
18th century
Chinese porcelain with French ormolu mounts
Musée du Louvre

Lady Ottoline Morrell
By the Pool at Garsington
ca. 1916
gelatin silver print
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Charles Ephraim Burchfield
The East Wind
1918
watercolor on paper
Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York

I am Athenian, that was my city,

raving Italian wars

took me from Athens long ago

to the city called Rome. Now I am dead,

island Kyzikos has covered my bones.

Farewell,

Earth, who reared me, earth who took me,

earth in whose lap I lay at last.

– from the Greek Anthology, translated by Peter Levi

Carrying

Philipp Otto Runge
Portrait of Pauline Runge with her Son
1807
oil on canvas
Alte Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Pieter van Lint
St Christopher
ca. 1675
oil on canvas
Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp

Parmigianino
Woman carrying a Child
ca. 1524-27
drawing
Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest

Jean-Baptiste Peytavin
Metabus fleeing with his daughter Camilla
(scene from the Aeneid)
1808
oil on canvas
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Chambéry

Sebastiano Ricci
Centaur Nessus abducting Dejanira, with Hercules in distance
ca. 1700
oil on canvas
Kunsthaus Zürich

Francisco Toledo
Deer (Venados)
ca. 1975-85
color etching and aquatint
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Eugène Vail
Study for Pêcheurs de la Mer du Nord
ca. 1893
drawing
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Franz Théobald Horny
Study of an Italian Woman
before 1824
drawing
Kupferstichkabinett,
Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Albrecht Altdorfer
Centaur carrying Spear and Cauldron of Fire
ca. 1515-25
engraving
Graphische Sammlung, ETH Zürich

Lucas van Leyden
Children bearing Helmet and Standard
1527
engraving
Graphische Sammlung, ETH Zürich

Francesco Giolfino
Head of John the Baptist supported by Cherubs
ca. 1500
lindenwood relief
Bode Museum, Berlin

Anthony van Dyck
Abraham leading Isaac to Sacrifice
before 1620
oil on canvas
Národní Galerie, Prague

Heinrich Aldegrever
Hercules carrying Pillars of Gaza
1550
engraving
Graphische Sammlung, ETH Zürich

Jost Amman
Titan carrying Boulder
ca. 1565
drawing
Graphische Sammlung, Zentralbibliothek Zürich

Franz Henseler
Weinstub Bozener Batzenhäusl
1910
lithograph (poster)
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Max Slevogt
Parrot Seller
1901
oil on canvas
Landesmuseum, Hannover

Hades, inexorable and unbending, why hast thou robbed baby Callaeschron of life? In the house of Persephone the boy shall be her plaything, but at home he leaves bitter suffering.

Five daughters and five sons did Bio bear to Didymon, but she got no joy from one of either. Bio, herself so excellent and a mother of such fine babes, was not buried by her children, but by strange hands.  

Often on this her daughter's tomb did Cleina call on her dear short-lived child in wailing tones, summoning back the soul of Philaenis, who ere her wedding passed across the pale stream of Acheron.

Alas! Aristocrateia, thou art gone to deep Acheron, gone to rest before thy prime, before thy marriage; and naught but tears is left for thy mother, who reclining on thy tomb often bewails thee.

This is the dust of Timas, whom, dead before her marriage, the dark chamber of Persephone received. When she died, all her girl companions with newly sharpened steel shore their lovely locks. 

In the sea, Nereus, died Sodamus the Cretan who loved thy nets and was at home on these thy waters. He excelled all men in his skill as a fisher, but the sea in a storm makes no distinction between fishermen and others. 

Arcturus' rising is an ill season for sailors to sail at, and I, Aspasius, whose tomb thou passest, traveller, met my bitter fate by the blast of Boreas. My body, washed by the waters of the Aegean main, is lost at sea. Lamentable ever is the death of young men, but most mournful of all is the fate of travellers who perish in the sea. 

Thymodes too, on a time, weeping for his unexpected sorrow built this empty tomb for his son Lycus; for not even does he lie under foreign earth, but some Bithynian strand, some island of the Black Sea holds him. There he lies, without funeral, showing his bare bones on the inhospitable shore. 

– from Book VI (Sepulchral Epigrams) of the Greek Anthology, translated and edited by W.R. Paton (1917)

Texts

Robert Delford Brown
Meat Show
(by special arrangement with Sioux City Packing Corp.)
1964
lithograph (exhibition flyer)
Archives of American Art, Washington DC

Anonymous Printmaker
No Draft - Don't Enlist - Refuse To Kill
ca. 1969
offset lithograph (poster)
National Museum of American History, Washington DC

Anonymous Printmaker
Shopping Bag from Marboro Books, New York
ca. 1970
offset print on paper bag
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

attributed to Benedetto Bordone
Poliphilo greeted by Philtronia
1499
woodcut and letterpress
(from the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili of Francesco Colonna
published by Aldus Manutius in Venice)
Hamburger Kunsthalle

Kristen Morgin
Monopoly
2007
painted clay
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Steven Shearer
I know all about broken dreams
1994
acrylic on canvas
Museum London, Ontario

Lawrence Weiner
Lawrence Weiner - Twenty Works
1980
lithograph (exhibition poster)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Ivan Chermayeff
The Invisible City
(airport luggage tags)
1972
offset-lithograph (poster)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Philippe Apeloig for Hermès
Shawl
(text pages of Fragments d'un Discours Amoureux by Roland Barthes)
2016
screenprinted cashmere and silk
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

León Ferrari
The Despair of the Outcasts in Hell
2005
drawing
Art Institute of Chicago

Adolph Gottlieb
Pictograph
1949
oil, tempera, gouache and casein on linen
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC

Robert Delford Brown
Another Map to Nevada
ca. 2000
printed map of Paris overwritten with markers
Archives of American Art, Washington DC

He Jianping
He Jianping - In Between
2012
screenprint (exhibition poster)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Ray Johnson
Pen Pals
1969
collage and ink on paper
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Claes Oldenburg
Claes Oldenburg: Projects for Monuments
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
1967
lithograph (exhibition poster)
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Peter Tyndall
Congratulations
1987
screenprint
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Duane Michals
Time is Such a Funny Thing
1992
gelatin silver print
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh

Time is Such a Funny Thing

Time is such a funny thing,

It's like a hole inside a ring,

    It's always now and never then.

But when I say it's now again,

    It's never now but always then.

We're always here and never there,

    But we go from here to there,

Then is here and here is there.

Should you think you're very tall,

    Next to a tree you're not at all

And if you think you're small,

    Beside a bee you're ten feet tall.

When we dream, we seem awake,

    But all along the dream was fake.

To me I'm "I" and never you,

You say you're "I" and also me,

    I know that's true, how can that be,

Since I'm not you, and you're not me. 

    Time is not what you might think,

        It is and isn't in a wink.

 

– Duane Michals