Monday, August 3, 2026

Young

attributed to Simone Bianco
Head of an Infant
ca. 1510
bronze
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford


Brunswick Monogrammist (Flemish Painter)
Boy with Dog
ca. 1525-50
oil on panel
Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts

Anonymous French Artist
Portrait of a Little Girl
ca. 1550-75
marble bust
Musée du Louvre

Anthony van Dyck
Portrait of Maddalena Cattaneo
1623
oil on canvas
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Anthony van Dyck
Portrait of Filippo Cattaneo
1623
oil on canvas
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Johann Zoffany
The Lavie Children
ca. 1770
oil on canvas
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Anonymous English Painter
Portrait of James Henry Leigh Hunt, age 7
1791
watercolor miniature on ivory
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

John Brett
Portrait of Laura Theresa Epps
1860
watercolor on paper
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Pierre Bonnard
The Artist's Sister and her Children
1899
oil on cardboard, mounted on panel
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

George Bellows
Little Girl in White (Queenie Burnett)
1907
oil on canvas
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Anonymous French Photographer
Girl in a Garden
ca. 1910
autochrome
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Frank Brangwyn
Study for Missouri State Capitol Mural
ca. 1914
gelatin silver print, squared in graphite
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Ekaterina Zernova
Pioneers! Fortify the Defenses of the Land of the Soviets!
1933
lithograph (poster)
Museum of Modern Art, New York

Garry Winogrand
New York
ca. 1962
gelatin silver print
Museum of Modern Art, New York

Joan Brown
Noel in the Kitchen
ca. 1964
oil on canvas
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Diane Arbus
Girl in a Watch Cap, N.Y.C.
1965
gelatin silver print
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Michael Ackerman
Cabbagetown
1998
gelatin silver print
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

from In Time of War (Commentary)

'Sweet is it', say the doomed, 'to be alive though wretched',
And the young emerging from the closed parental circle,
To whose uncertainty the certain years present

Their syllabus of limitless anxiety and labour,
At first feel nothing but the gladness of their freedom,
Are happy in the new embraces and the open talk.

But liberty to be and weep has never been sufficient;
The winds surround our griefs, the unfenced sky
To all our failures is a taciturn unsmiling witness. 

– W.H. Auden (1938)