Tuesday, April 14, 2026

Whirl

Elaine de Kooning
Exhibition at Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York
1957
hand-colored screenprint (poster)
Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York


workshop of Jacques-Louis David
Tête d'Expression
1815
oil on canvas
Phoenix Art Museum, Arizona

Pavel Tchelitchew
Gertrude Stein
1930
drawing
Art Institute of Chicago

Sean Scully
Day
2005
aquatint
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Elaine de Kooning
Man in a Whirl
ca. 1957
oil on canvas
Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York

Jacques-Louis David
Portait of Catherine Marie Jeanne Tallard
1795
oil on canvas
Musée du Louvre

Pavel Tchelitchew
Portrait of George Platt Lynes
ca. 1933
drawing
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

Sean Scully
4.7.99.
1999
watercolor on paper
Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York

Willem de Kooning
Woman with a Hat
1966
oil on paper
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Jacques-Louis David
Portrait of the artist's son Jules
ca. 1788
oil on canvas
Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts

Pavel Tchelitchew
Portrait of Monroe Wheeler
1942
drawing
Art Institute of Chicago

Sean Scully
Backs Fronts Windows
1991-93
color woodblock print
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Willem de Kooning
Gotham News
1955
oil, enamel and charcoal on canvas
Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York

Jacques-Louis David
Father of the Horatii
ca. 1783
oil on canvas
(study for painting, Oath of the Horatii)
Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence

Pavel Tchelitchew
Portrait of Monroe Wheeler
1935
drawing
Art Institute of Chicago

Sean Scully
Bigland
1987-88
oil on canvas
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Willem de Kooning
Untitled V
1977
oil on canvas
Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York

With the fierce rage of winter deep suffused,
An icy gale, oft shifting, o'er the pool
Breathes a blue film, and in its mid-career
Arrests the bickering stream. The loosened ice,
Let down the flood, and half dissolved by day,
Rustles no more; but to the sedgy bank
Fast grows, or gathers round the pointed stone,
A crystal pavement, by the breath of Heaven,
Cemented firm; till, seized from shore to shore,
The whole imprisoned river growls below.

– James Thomson, from The Seasons (1746)