Heroic

Vito Acconci
No One in the Plaza
1994
gelatin silver print
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh

Gobelins Manufactory
Portière with Jupiter
ca. 1771-73
wool and silk tapestry
Musée du Louvre

Francesco Vanni
Saints interceding to save a Drowning Girl
before 1609
drawing
British Museum

Horace Vernet
Portrait of Madame Philippe Lenoir
née Marie Aspasie Jousseran
1814
oil on canvas
Musée du Louvre

Ansel Adams
Cast-Iron Figure, Old San Francisco Building
1961
Polaroid
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Gobelins Manufactory
Counterpane with Floral Design
ca. 1770-90
wool and silk tapestry
Musée du Louvre

Francesco Vanni
Heroic Classical Figure
before 1609
drawing
British Museum

Horace Vernet
Portrait of Philippe Lenoir
(art collector and friend of the artist)
1814
oil on canvas
Musée du Louvre

Diane Arbus
Headless Woman, Palisades Park N.J.
1961
gelatin silver print
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Gobelins Manufactory
Portière with the Arms of France
ca. 1730-40
wool and silk tapestry
Musée du Louvre

Francesco Vanni
Drapery Study
ca. 1603
drawing (study for painting)
British Museum

Horace Vernet
Race of the Riderless Horses, Rome
ca. 1820
oil on canvas (sketches for painting)
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh

Linda Connor
Chair in Grass Hut
1975
gelatin silver print
Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York

Gobelins Manufactory
Portière with the Huntress Diana at rest
ca. 1730
wool and silk tapestry
Musée du Louvre

Francesco Vanni
St Gregory inspired by the Holy Spirit
before 1609
drawing
British Museum

Horace Vernet
Horse and Mounted Soldier Urinating in Unison
ca. 1820
drawing
British Museum

Alexander Zhitomirsky
Du Pont
1974
hand-colored photomontage
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

On a Worthless Politician

Fortune did not mean to give you promotion

Except to prove that her omnipotence

Stretches as low as you.

– from the Greek Anthology, translated by Peter Jay