Saturday, March 14, 2026

Looking Down

Ilse Bing
My Courtyard, New York
1952
gelatin silver print
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC


Wolfgang Tillmans
Sheet One
2001
C-print
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Michael Mazur
Dante's Inferno - Charon's Boat
2000
etching
Loeb Art Center, Vassar College,
Poughkeepsie, New York

Felicitas Vogler
Rugen Island
1994
C-print
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh

Marilyn Bridges
Temple of Poseidon, Sounion
1984
gelatin silver print
New Britain Museum of American Art, Connecticut

Charles Ephraim Burchfield
White Violets and Abandoned Coal Mine
1918
watercolor on paper
Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York

Jean-Baptiste Louis Gros
Crater of Popocatépetl
1833
oil on paper, mounted on canvas
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh

Pierre Dubreuil
La Grande Place, Bruxelles
1908
bromoil print
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Peter Cattrell
Cley Hill, Wiltshire
1984
gelatin silver print
Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh

Albert Goodwin
The Bristol Channel
ca. 1895
oil on panel
Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts

Gentile da Fabriano
St Nicholas of Bari saving Ship from sinking
1425
tempera on panel (predella fragment)
Pinacoteca Vaticana, Rome

Henri Matisse
Notre Dame une fin d'après-midi
1902
oil on paper, mounted on canvas
Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York

Christo (Christo Javacheff)
Wrapped Reichstag, Berlin
1995
inkjet print mounted on aluminum
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Johann Rudolf Holzhalb after Emanuel Büchel
Ancient Roman Theatre in Augusta Raurica (Switzerland)
1763
etching
Graphische Sammlung, Zentralbibliothek Zürich

Eddie Martinez
Oceanic
2020
oil, acrylic and spray paint on canvas
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh

Leland Rice
Large Empty Chair
1972
gelatin silver print
Loeb Art Center, Vassar College,
Poughkeepsie, New York

Irving Penn
Underfoot
1999
gelatin silver print
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

You gave me beauty, Cytherea,
but gradual time has withered me;
now, sine your gift is gone, I give
the glass that kept it company.

– from the Greek Anthology, translated by Robin Skelton