Sunday, September 20, 2026

Visual Preferences (20th Century: 1978)

Julian Schnabel
Vallanzasca, Italian Hero
1978
oil on canvas
Hall Collection, Schloss Derneburg, Germany

Victor Vasarely
Relat
1978
screenprint
Wright Museum of Art, Beloit, Wisconsin



Andy Warhol
Four Mona Lisas
1978
screenprint on linen
Art Institue of Chicago

Todd Webb
Portland Museum of Art, Maine
1978
gelatin silver print 
Portland Museum of Art, Maine

Max Yavno
Otto and Gail Natzler
1978
gelatin silver print
Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Stephen Frykholm
Herman Miller Summer Picnic
1978
screenprint
Denver Art Museum

Paul Jenkins
Phenomenon - Emperor's Violet
1978
acrylic on canvas
NSU Art Museum, Fort Lauderdale, Florida

Roy Lichtenstein
At the Beach
1978
lithograph
Wichita Art Museum, Kansas

Joel Meyerowitz
Young Dancer, 34th Street and 9th Avenue, NYC
1978
C-print
Art Institute of Chicago

Duane Michals
The Pyramids by Moonlight
1978
photogravure
Art Institute of Chicago

Robert Allen Nelson
Green Powerscape
1978
acrylic on paper
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh

Archie Rand
Candlewood
1978
acrylic on canvas
Dallas Museum of Art

Daniel Riccio
Throne
1978
silver, wood and velvet
New Britain Museum of American Art, Connecticut

Reginald Rowe
Icon
1978
acrylic on canvas
McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas

Tod Papageorge
Central Park
1978
gelatin silver print
Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York

Max Kozloff
Tourist Window with Sunglasses, Barcelona
1978
C-print
Art Institute of Chicago

from Precious Five

Look, naked eyes, look straight 
At all eyes but your own
Lest in a tête-à-tête
Of glances double-crossed,
Both knowing and both known,
Your nakedness be lost;
Rove curiously about
But look from inside out,
Compare two eyes you meet
By dozens on the street,
One shameless, one ashamed,
Too lifeless to be blamed,
With eyes met now and then
Looking from living men,
Which in petrarchan fashion
Play opposite the heart,
Their humor to her passion,
Her nature to their art,
For mutual undeceiving;
True seeing is believing
(What sight can never prove)
There is a world to see:
Look outward, eyes, and love
Those eyes you cannot be. 

– W.H. Auden (1950)