Sunday, March 15, 2026

Looking Up

Henry Lyman Sayen
Clouds
ca. 1910-12
oil on canvas
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC


Jean-Michel Cels
Cloud Study, Late Afternoon
1840
oil on paper
Morgan Library, New York

Genevieve Hafner
Untitled
2001
digital print
Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York

Thomas Nilsson
Untitled
2001
digital print
Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York

William Eggleston
Santa Monica
1974
dye transfer print
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Christo (Christo Javacheff)
Over the River: Project for Arkansas River, State of Colorado
2010
collage, graphite, paint, fabric and photo on paper
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

attributed to Giuseppe Franchi
Lion
ca. 1775-1800
marble
(carved in Rome after antique Medici lions)
Musée du Louvre

Fillia (Luigi Colombo)
Mistero Aereo
ca. 1930-31
oil on canvas
Museo dell'Aeronautica Gianni Caproni, Trento

Graciela Iturbide
Jardín Botánico de Oaxaca
1999
gelatin silver print
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Matteo Rosselli
Allegory of Strength
ca. 1620-25
ceiling fresco
Galleria Palatina, Palazzo Pitti, Florence

Anonymous Florentine Painter
Assumption of the Virgin
17th century
fresco
Basilica di Santo Spirito, Florence

Mauro Antonio Tesi
Study for Ceiling Decoration
before 1766
ink and watercolor on paper
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Domenico del Frate
Winged Victories
before 1792
oil on paper
(bozzetto for overdoor painting)
Palazzo Mansi, Lucca

Rollie McKenna
Palazzo Chiericati, Vicenza
1951
gelatin silver print
Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York

Weegee
U.S. Hotel
ca. 1949
gelatin silver print
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Thornton Utz
Portrait of Mrs Harry Lynde Bradley
ca. 1973
acrylic and oil on panel
Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin

Annibale Carracci
Boy Drinking
ca. 1582-83
oil on canvas
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio

Everthing's laughter
            everything dust
                        everything nothing.
Out of unreason comes
            everything that exists.

– from the Greek Anthology, translated by Peter Jay