Saturday, February 28, 2026

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