Friday, June 12, 2026

Solos

Alvar Aalto for Korhonen (Finland)
Side Table
1932
laminated birch and molded plywood
Museum of Modern Art, New York


Robert Adams
The River's Edge
2015
gelatin silver print
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Anonymous European Maker
Dodecahedron
17th century
ivory
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Stuart Arends
O.S. no. 11
1993
painted steel
Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York

Andrea Baldeck
Kohlrabi
2006
gelatin silver print
Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York

Pierre Delabarre
Antique Roman Vase adapted as Baroque Ewer
ca. 1630
sardonyx, enameled gold, gems
(collection of Louis XIV)
Musée du Louvre

Elizabeth Damon
Untitled
1969
acrylic on canvas
Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York

Joseph Beuys
Green Violin
1974
painted violin
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh

Hilla Becher
Oak Leaf
1965
gelatin silver print
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Phyllida Barlow
Torque
2015
steel, polyurethane foam, cement, wool, paint
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh

Edgar Degas
Oinochoe in form of Youth's Head
ca. 1855
oil on canvas
Musée d'Orsay, Paris

Wilson Bentley
Snow Crystal
ca. 1920
gelatin silver print
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Achenbach Foundation

Olaf von Bohr for Kartell (Italy)
Clothes Hook
1971
plastic
Museum of Modern Art, New York

Joseph Cornell
Untitled
ca. 1932
glass dome on wood base, metal spring, glass eye
Museum of Modern Art, New York

Alexander Calder
Comb
before 1943
hammered brass
Museum of Modern Art, New York

Christopher Dresser for Richard Perry (England)
Watering Can
ca. 1876
painted iron
Museum of Modern Art, New York

Walker Evans
Doorbell
1958
gelatin silver print
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Control of the passes was, he saw, the key
To this new district, but who would get it?
He, the trained spy, had walked into a trap
For a bogus guide, seduced with the old tricks.

At Greenhearth was a fine site for a dam
And easy power, had they pushed the rail
Some stations nearer. They ignored his wires.
The bridges were unbuilt and trouble coming.

– W.H. Auden (1928)