Friday, August 28, 2026

Visual Preferences (20th Century: 1968)

Alice Baber
Departure for Lavender (Lavender at the Turn)
1968
oil on canvas
Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami

Betty Hahn
Kodak Tri-X Pan Film
1968
hand-colored gum bichromate print
Akron Art Museum, Ohio

Claude Flynn Howell
The Beachcomber
1968
oil on canvas
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh

Friedensreich Hundertwasser
Skislope
1968
screenprint
McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas

Duane Michals
Lion Tamer
1968
gelatin silver print
Art Institute of Chicago

Lee Conklin
Moby Grape at the Fillmore, San Francisco
1968
lithograph (poster)
Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington

Lee Conklin
Procol Harum and Santana
at the Fillmore, San Francisco

1968
lithograph (poster)
Denver Art Museum

Robert Indiana
Number 5
1968
screenprint
Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington

Art Green
Delicate Situation
1968
oil on canvas
Akron Art Museum, Ohio

Francis Celentano
Alpha Diamond I
1968
oil on canvas
Seattle Art Museum

Josef Albers
Homage to the Square: Red Series, Untitled III
1968
oil on panel
Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California

Corneille (Guillaume Cornelis van Beverloo)
L'Oiseau et la Terre Fleurie
1968
oil on canvas
NSU Art Museum, Fort Lauderdale, Florida

Helen Frankenthaler
Adriatic
1968
oil on canvas
Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California

Walter De Maria
Yellow Painting - The Color Men Choose When They Attack The Earth
1968
oil on canvas with stainless-steel plate
Menil Collection, Houston

Charles Cushman
San Francisco Palace of Fine Arts - Restored Colonnade
1968
Kodachrome slide
Indiana University Library, Bloomington

Barbara Crane
Shadow People
1968
gelatin silver print
Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California

Objects

All that which lies outside our sort of why, 
Those wordless creatures who are there as well,
Remote from mourning yet in sight and cry,
Make time more golden than we meant to tell.

Tearless, their surfaces appear as deep
As any longing we believe we had;
If shapes can so to their own edges keep,
No separation proves a being bad.

There is less grief than wonder on the whole,
Even at sunset, though, of course we care
Each time the same old shadow falls across

One Person who is not: somewhere, a soul,
Light in her bestial substance, well aware,
Extols the silence of how soon a loss.

– W.H. Auden (1956)