Sunday, July 19, 2026

Visual Preferences (20th Century: 1933)

Sybil Andrews
Bringing in the Boat
1933
linocut
Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, Texas

Henri Cartier-Bresson
André Pieyre de Mandiargues and Leonor Fini in Trieste
1933
gelatin silver print
Menil Collection, Houston

Rockwell Kent
Mountain Climber
1933
wood-engraving
Akron Art Museum, Ohio

Marie Laurencin
Woman with Guitar
1933
watercolor on paper
Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York

Fernand Léger-
Composition with Tree Trunks
1933
oil on canvas
Dallas Museum of Art

Jacques Lipchitz
The Embrace: maquette no. 1
1933
plaster
Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas

Reginald Marsh
Union Square
1933
lithograph
Wichita Art Museum, Kansas

Louise Nevelson
Still Life
1933
oil on board
Portland Museum of Art, Maine

Bror Julius Olsson Nordfeldt
Tonita and Johnny
1933
oil on canvas
Dallas Museum of Art

Angelo Pinto
Balcony Scene
1933
oil on canvas
Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia

Anton Prinner
Large Column
1933
carved and painted wood
Dallas Museum of Art

Morgan Russell
Echo Antique
1933
oil on canvas
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh

Harald Sallberg
Interior
1933
etching
Prins Eugens Waldemarsudde, Stockholm

Juho Salminen
Landscape at Suomenlinna
1933
oil on canvas
Ateneum Art Museum, Helsinki

August Sander
Town of Zons on the Lower Rhine
1933
gelatin silver print
Princeton University Art Museum

Herbert Schimkowitz
New Year's Greeting (St Christopher)
1933
woodcut
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

from Profile

A childhood full of love
and good things to eat:
why should he not hate change?

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Too timid to cruise,
in his feudal day-dream no
courage is needed.
The Cardinal halts his coach:
"Dear Child, you please me. Hop in!"

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He likes giving presents
but finds it hard to forget
what each one cost.

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His guardian-angel
has always told him
What and Whom to read next.

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Conscious of his good luck,
he wonders why so few
people kill themselves.

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In a coughing fit
he felt he was throwing up
hard Capital F's.

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By nature monandrous,
he finds it hard to desert
a piece of trade.

– W.H. Auden (1973)