Wednesday, July 8, 2026

Visual Preferences (20th Century: 1922)

Georgia O'Keeffe
Purple Leaves
1922
oil on canvas, mounted on panel
Dayton Art Institute, Ohio

Mira Edgerly Korzybska
The Time Binder
1922
oil paint on ivory
Art Institute of Chicago

William McGregor Paxton
Woman with Red Hair
1922
oil on canvas
Seattle Art Museum

Pierre Bonnard
Place Clichy
1922
lithograph
Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts

Henri Matisse
Le Coffret Chinois
1922
oil on canvas
Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia

Uno Falkengren
Woman with Veil 
1922
gelatin silver print
Moderna Museet, Stockholm

Heinrich Davringhausen
Portrait of a Man
1922
oil on canvas
Von der Heydt Museum, Wuppertal

André Bauchant
Camels in the Desert
1922
oil on canvas
Clemens-Sels Museum, Neuss, Germany

Juan Gris
Pierrot
1922
oil on canvas
Von der Heydt Museum, Wuppertal

Alexander Kuprin
Artificial Flowers on Black Ground
1922
oil on canvas
Museum Ludwig, Cologne

Wassily Kandinsky
Small World VII
1922
lithograph
McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas

Piet Mondrian
Composition with Yellow-Blue and Blue-White
1922
oil on canvas
Menil Collection, Houston

Léon Bakst
Costume Design for revival of Le Dieu Bleu
(Ballets Russes production)
1922
watercolor and gouache on paper
McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas

Henrietta Mary Shore
Waterfall
1922
oil on canvas
Dallas Museum of Art

Sergey Sudyekin
Poster Design for Chauve Souris Theatre, Paris
1922
gouache and collage on board
McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas

Édouard Vuillard
La Salle Clarac au Louvre
1922
pastel on paper, mounted on panel
Cabinet d'Arts Graphiques des Musées d'Art et d'Histoire, Genève

from Circe

Her Telepathic-Station transmits thought-waves
the second-rate, the bored, the disappointed,
and any of us when tired or uneasy,
        are tuned to receive.

So, though unlisted in atlas or phone-book,
Her Garden is easy to find. In no time
one reaches the gate over which is written
        large: Make Love Not War.

Inside it is warm and still like a drowsy
September day, though the leaves show no sign of
turning. All around one notes the usual
        pinks and blues and reds,

a shade over-emphasised. The rose-bushes
have no thorns. An invisible orchestra 
plays the Great Masters: the technique is flawless,
        the rendering schmaltz.

Of Herself no sign. But, just as the pilgrim
is starting to wonder "Have I been hoaxed by
a myth?", he feels Her hand in his and hears Her
        murmuring: At last!

– W.H. Auden (1969)