Wednesday, September 2, 2026

Aqueous

James Tissot
Seated Woman
1873
watercolor and gouache on paper
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford


Amedeo Modigliani
Caryatid
1914
gouache and ink on paper
Museum of Modern Art, New York

Charles Demuth
Vaudeville Musicians
1917
watercolor on paper
Museum of Modern Art, New York

Henri-Eugène Callot
Surf and Rocks
ca. 1920
gouache on paper
Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts

Georges Valmier
Fugue
1920
watercolor, gouache, ink and collage on paper
Guggenheim Museum, New York

Alexandra Exter
Composition
ca. 1921
gouache on paper
Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York

Jacques Lipchitz
Study for Sacrifice
ca. 1947
watercolor and gouache on paper
Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York

Albert Swinden
Abstraction
1952
gouache on paper
Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York

Béla Kádár
Music
before 1955
gouache on paper
Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York

Jean-Paul Riopelle
Untitled
1955
watercolor, gouache and ink on paper
Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York

Georges Noël
La Flèche
1963
gouache on paper
Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York

Alexander Calder
Harlequin's Dream
1963
gouache on paper
Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York

Geneviève Claisse
No.3 ADN (Jaune, Noir, Blanc)
1971
gouache on paper
Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York

A.R. Penck
Untitled
1980
gouache on paper
Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York

Anna Andreeva
Moscow Olympics
1980
gouache on paper (design for children's textile)
Museum of Modern Art, New York

Mary Heilmann
Big Bill
1987
gouache and acrylic on canvas
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Amy Sillman
Somewhere through although sometimes
1997
gouache on paper
Museum of Modern Art, New York

from The Last Man

SCENE: the abyss of Space: Ambrosius and Cynthia in the car, returning to the earth

Ambrosius:  O what a deep delight it is to cleave,
                    Out-darting thought, above all sight and sound,
                    And sweep the ceiling of the universe,
                    Thus with our locks!  How it does mad the heart,
                    How dances it along the living veins,
                    Like hot and steaming wine!  How my eyes ache
                    With gazing on its mighty vacancy!

– Thomas Lovell Beddoes (1825)