Wednesday, September 23, 2026

Columnar Self

Rineke Dijkstra
Wall Street NY USA June 29 1993
1993
C-print
Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York


Thomas Roma
Shepherd leaning on Tree, Sicily
1986
gelatin silver print
Museum of Modern Art, New York

Andy Warhol
Christ $9.98
ca. 1985-86
screenprint on canvas
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh

Stephen De Staebler
Lavender Figure Column
1979
porcelain, stoneware, terracotta
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Charles Clough
Paint Creature Seventeen
1978
enamel on paper
Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York

Kaisik Wong
Harvest
1976
gelatin silver print
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (Achenbach Foundation)

Philippe Halsman
Marilyn Monroe
1952
gelatin silver print
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

Alexander Archipenko
Striding Soldier
1917
painted plaster and wood
Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York

Ambrose McEvoy
Mrs Francis Howard
ca. 1916-18
oil on canvas
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Anonymous Photographer
Woman in Patriotic Costume
ca. 1910
hand-colored gelatin silver print (postcard)
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Kees van Dongen
Figure
1905
oil on canvas
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri

Pierre Parrocel
Country Woman
before 1739
etching
British Museum

Filippo Napoletano (Filippo Angeli)
Soldier in Cloak
(series, Capricci e Habiti Militari)
before 1629
etching
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

workshop of François Clouet
Portrait of Charles IX, King of France
ca. 1566
oil on panel
Musée du Louvre

Anonymous Germany Printmaker
after Lucas Cranach the Elder
Salvator Mundi
16th century
hand-colored woodcut
British Museum

Agostino Zoppo
Atlante
ca. 1555-60
bronze statuette
Musée du Louvre

Anonymous French Sculptor
Mourner
ca. 1300-1330
marble statuette
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

        A conversation: the situated and private re-activation of a public, ongoing, long-preserved address.  Reading, going on with this: it meant putting herself in the position of being spoken to.  But also deciding, on her own terms, the pace of her engagement and, in her own way, from the position of her life and concerns, answering back.

– Kate Briggs, considering the novel Tom Jones, in The Long Form (2023)