Tuesday, July 21, 2026

Visual Preferences (20th Century: 1935)

Margaret Bourke-White
Passenger eating aboard a TWA Flight
1935
gelatin silver print
Portland Museum of Art, Maine

Giorgio de Chirico
Alexandros
1935
oil on canvas
Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia

William Givler
Window Washers
1935
oil on canvas
Tacoma Art Museum

Arshile Gorky
Untitled
1935
drawing
Seattle Art Museum

Harvey Griffiths
Arrangement with Billboard
1935
watercolor on paper
Akron Art Museum, Ohio

Ludwig Hohlwein
On German Roads
1935
offset print (poster)
Kunstbibliothek, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Raymond Jonson
Rising Moon
1935
oil on canvas
McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas

Walt Kuhn
A Stream in the Woods
1935
oil on canvas
Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, Maine

Jacques Lipchitz
Aeneas and Anchises
1935
lithograph
 Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, 
Poughkeepsie, New York

Alexandre Benois
Fontainebleau
1935
watercolor on paper
Fleming Museum of Art, Burlington, Vermont

Barbara Morgan
Martha Graham in Primitive Mysteries
1935
gelatin silver print
Portland Museum of Art, Maine

Georgia O'Keeffe
Blue Morning Glories New Mexico II
1935
oil on canvas
Loeb Art Center, Vassar College,
Poughkeepsie, New York

Ben Shahn
Destitute Family, Ozark Mountains, Arkansas
1935
gelatin silver print
Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts

Paul Signac
Saint Tropez I
1935
lithograph
McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas

Charley Toorop
Still Life
1935
oil on canvas
Kunstmuseum, The Hague

Russell Wright
Saturn Punch Service
1935
aluminum and wood
New Orleans Museum of Art

At the Party

Unrhymed, unrhythmical, the chatter goes: 
Yet no one hears his own remarks as prose.

Beneath each topic tunelessly discussed
The ground-bass is reciprocal mistrust.

The names in fashion shuttling to and fro
Yield, when deciphered, messages of woe.

You cannot read me like an open book.

I'm more myself than you will ever look.

Will no one listen to my little song?

Perhaps I shan't be with you very long.

A howl for recognition, shrill with fear,
Shakes the jam-packed apartment, but each ear
Is listening to its hearing, so none hear. 

– W.H. Auden (1963)