Confection

Margaret Strickland
Nana's Front Porch
2008
inkjet print
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Amy Stevens
Confections #44
2007
C-print
Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Fredericton, New Brunswick

Joel Sternfeld
May-Pole, Short Mountain Sanctuary - Liberty, Tennessee
2005
C-print
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Manit Sriwanichpoom
Pink Man in Paradise #2
2003
C-print
Asian Art Museum, San Francisco

Hiroshi Sugimoto
The Royal Family
1994
gelatin silver print
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Athena Tacha
Ears
1970-75
C-prints trimmed to size and mounted on board
Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York

Alfred Stieglitz
Brancusi Sculpture
1914
halftone-print (magazine reproduction)
Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas

Carl Strathmann
The Lost Glove
ca. 1897
oil on canvas
Lenbachhaus, Munich

Carl Spitzweg
The Geologist
ca. 1854
oil on canvas
Von der Heydt Museum, Wuppertal

Louis-Gustave Taraval
Design for Hexagonal Temple
ca. 1780
drawing
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Karel Škréta
Marriage Portrait of Noble Couple as Helen and Paris
1672
oil on canvas
Národní Galerie, Prague

Pieter Cornelisz van Slingelandt
Miniature Portrait of a Young Man
ca. 1656
oil on panel
Národní Galerie, Prague

attributed to Bartholomeus Spranger
Adoration of the Magi
ca. 1580
drawing
Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen

Virgil Solis
Design for Coat of Arms
ca. 1550
drawing
Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Dresden

Giovanni Antonio Sogliani
Virgin and Child with young St John the Baptist
ca. 1530
oil on panel
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Caen

il Sodoma (Giovanni Antonio Bazzi)
Holy Family with young St John the Baptist
ca. 1520
oil on panel
Detroit Institute of Arts

Andrea Solario
The Crucifixion
ca. 1503
drawing
(study for painting, now in the Louvre)
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge

from Ulysses and the Siren

Siren.  Come, worthy Greek! Ulysses, come;

                Possess these shores with me!

            The winds and seas are troublesome

                And here we may be free.

            Here may we sit and view their toil

                That travail in the deep,

            And joy the day in mirth the while

                And spend the night in sleep.

Ulysses.  Fair nymph, if fame or honour were

                    To be attained with ease,

                Then would I come and rest me there,

                    And leave such toils as these.

                But here it dwells, and here must I

                    With danger seek it forth:

                To spend the time luxuriously

                    Becomes not men of worth.

                                 *

Siren.  That doth opinion only cause,

                That's out of custom bred,

            Which makes us many other laws

                Than ever nature did.

            No widows wail for our delights,

                Our sports are without blood;

            The world we see by warlike wights

                Receives more hurt than good.

                            

Ulysses.  But yet the state of things require 

                    These motions of unrest,

                And these great spirits of high desire

                    Seem born to turn them best;

                To purge the mischiefs that increase

                    And all good order mar,

                For oft we see a wicked peace

                    To be well changed for war.

Siren.  Well, well, Ulysses, then I see 

                I shall not have thee here;

            And therefore I will come to thee

                And make my fortune there.

            I must be won that cannot win,

                Yet lost were I not won,

            For beauty hath created been

                T' undo, or be undone.

– Samuel Daniel (1562-1619)