Friday, June 5, 2026

Withdrawals

Vanessa Bell
Clive Bell in a Punt
ca. 1908
oil on canvas
Huntington Museum of Art, Huntington, West Virginia


Roloff Beny
Michelangelo's Aurora
Medici Chapel, San Lorenzo, Florence

before 1966
gelatin silver print
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa

Lois Bielefeld
Monday: JoAlice
2014
C-print
Racine Art Museum, Wisconsin

Elmer Bischoff
Woman with Dark Blue Sky
1959
oil on canvas
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC

Jacques-Émile Blanche
Portrait of Henry James
1908
oil on canvas
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio
Young Man wreathed with Vine Leaves
ca. 1495
drawing
Biblioteca Reale, Turin

François Bonvin
Woman in White
1865
oil on panel
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Reims

Anne Brigman
Heart of the Storm
1918
gelatin silver print
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Edward Calvert
The Chamber Idyll
1904
wood-engraving
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa

Eugène Carrière
Le Mineur
1900
lithograph
Kunstbibliothek, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Herbert Rose Barraud
Portrait of Kate Roke
before 1888
Woodburytype print
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa

Bary Studio, Paris
Portrait of Eleonora Duse
ca. 1890-95
albumen print (cabinet card)
Princeton University Art Museum

Francesco Bassano the Younger
Israelites discovering Water in the Desert
ca. 1590
oil on canvas
Liechtenstein Museum, Vienna

Otto Baumberger
Marque PKZ
1923
lithograph
(advertising poster for clothing retailer)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Aubrey Beardsley
Les Passades
1894
lithograph
Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia

Domenico Beccafumi
Virgin and Child with young St John the Baptist
ca. 1542
oil on panel
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

Max Beckmann
Acrobat on Trapeze
1940
oil on canvas
Saint Louis Art Museum

Wreck

In the train wreck my pieces of life
Were sidewise laid to track, river, and hill,
Crosswise and palpable
To canyon and cliff.

The damage was, many later could surmise,
Insured, probable, and full of reason,
But crosswise stalled in the grave my greatest passion
Was surprise, surprise. 

– Josephine Miles (1911-1985)