Sunday, August 9, 2026

Depths

Richard Misrach
Wall east of Nogales, Arizona
2014
inkjet print
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC


Frank Gohlke
A Patch of Shade near Bonnieux, Provence, France
1987
C-print
Museum of Modern Art, New York

Thomas Struth
Via del Corso, Rome
1984
gelatin silver print
Museum of Modern Art, New York

Janet Delaney
Transbay Terminal News Stand, San Francisco
1982
pigment print
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (Achenbach Foundation)

Kazuyuki Kawaguchi
Naha, Okinawa
1979
gelatin silver print
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Roger Brown
Waterfall
1974
oil on canvas
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

L.S. Lowry
Near Glencoe
1960
oil on canvas
Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin

Andreas Feininger
Rush Hour, Fifth Avenue, New York
ca. 1953
gelatin silver print
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Arthur Leipzig
Brooklyn Waterfront near Belt Parkway
ca. 1952
gelatin silver print
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Martín Chambi
Festival at Ayaviri, Puno, Peru
1940
gelatin silver print
Museum of Modern Art, New York

Anonymous English Photographer
Addison's Walk, Oxford
ca. 1870
albumen print
Princeton University Art Museum

Carl Morgenstern
The Jungfrau, the Mönch and the Eiger
ca. 1860
oil on paper
Morgan Library, New York

John Murray
Colonnade in the Pearl Mosque, Agra
ca. 1856
albumen silver print from paper negative
Museum of Modern Art, New York

Georges Michel
View of Montmartre
ca. 1830
oil on canvas
Speed Art Museum, Louisville, Kentucky

Andrea Sacchi, Jan Miel and Filippo Gagliardi
Celebration of the Centenary of the Jesuits
1641
oil on canvas
Palazzo Barberini, Rome

Jacopo Tintoretto
Christ and the Woman taken in Adultery
ca. 1546-48
oil on canvas
Palazzo Barberini, Rome

Masolino (Tommaso di Cristoforo Fini)
Banquet of Herod - Salome receiving the Head of John the Baptist
1435
fresco
Battistero di Castiglione Olona

from The Princess

And me that morning Walter showed the house,
Greek, set with busts: from vases in the hall
Flowers of all heavens, and lovelier than their names,
Grew side by side; and on the pavement lay
Carved stones of the Abbey-ruin in the park,
Huge Ammonites, and the first bones of Time;
And on the tables every clime and age
Jumbled together; celts and calumets,
Claymore and snowshoe, toys in lava, fans
Of sandal, amber, ancient rosaries,
Laborious orient ivory sphere on sphere,
The cursed Malayan crease, and battle-clubs
From the isles of palm: and higher on the walls
Betwixt the monstrous horns of elk and deer,
His own forefathers' arms and armour hung.

– Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1847)