Tuesday, June 2, 2026

Archaic

Lucas Kilian
A Duchess of Tuscany
(series of Archaic Figures)
before 1637
engraving
British Museum

Alex Katz
August, Late Afternoon
1973
oil on linen
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC

André Kertész
Vert Galant, Paris
1963
gelatin silver print
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Samuel Palmer
Hilly Landscape
ca. 1824
drawing
British Museum

Lucas Kilian
A Burgher
(series of Archaic Figures)
before 1637
engraving
British Museum

Alex Katz
Walk
1970
oil on canvas
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh

André Kertész
Detail of Mounted Warriors on Etruscan Cauldron
ca. 1950
gelatin silver print
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Samuel Palmer
Landscape Study
ca. 1824
drawing
British Museum

Lucas Kilian
A French King
(series of Archaic Figures)
before 1637
engraving
British Museum

Alex Katz
Song, Laura Dean Dance Co.
1977
oil on canvas
Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin

André Kertész
Book and Shadow, New York
1974
gelatin silver print
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Samuel Palmer
Sheet of Landscape Studies
ca. 1824
drawing
British Museum

Lucas Kilian
A King
(series of Archaic Figures)
before 1637
engraving
British Museum

Alex Katz
Pink Sweater
1981
oil on panel
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh

André Kertész
Last Supper, New York
1978
gelatin silver print
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Samuel Palmer
Shepherds under a Full Moon
ca. 1829-30
drawing
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Lucas Kilian
A Nobleman
(series of Archaic Figures)
before 1637
engraving
British Museum

Time Real and Imaginary: an Allegory

On the wide level of a mountain's head
(I knew not where, but 'twas some faery place)
Their pinions, ostrich-like, for sails outspread,
Two lovely children run an endless race,
                A sister and a brother!
                This far outstripped the other;
        Yet ever runs she with reverted face,
        And looks and listens for the boy behind!
                For he, alas! is blind!
O'er rough and smooth with even step he passed,
And knows not whether he be first or last. 

– Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1817)