Friday, October 2, 2026

Visual Preferences (20th Century: 1984)

Haynes Ownby
Aries
1984
acrylic on canvas
Akron Art Museum, Ohio

Roy Lichtenstein
Two Paintings: Green Lamp
1984
lithograph, woodcut and screenprint
Dallas Museum of Art

Philip Pearlstein
Two Nudes - Bamboo and Linoleum
1984
oil on canvas
Phoenix Art Museum, Arizona

Reinhoud d'Haese
Taste
1984
engraving
(illustration to Alfred Jarry's Les Cinq Sens) 
NSU Art Museum, Fort Lauderdale, Florida

Maxwell Hendler
A-1
1984
oil on canvas
Orange County Museum of Art, Costa Mesa, California

Jim Dine
Red, White and Blue Venus
1984
screenprint
San Jose Museum of Art, California

David Dewey
Brooksville Methodist (Brooksville, Maine)
1984
watercolor on paper
Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, Maine

Joan Fontcuberta
Supratex horadatus
1984
gelatin silver print
Art Institute of Chicago

Joel-Peter Witkin
Alternates for Muybridge, San Francisco
1984
gelatin silver print
Art Institute of Chicago

George Tooker
Embrace
1984
lithograph
New Britain Museum of American Art, Connecticut

Stefan Plenkers
Mirror Images
1984
oil on canvas
Galerie Neue Meister (Albertinum), Dresden

Robert Motherwell
Black Sounds
1984
lithograph
San Jose Museum of Art, California

Thomas Ruff
Portrait (P. Fries)
1984
C-print
Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston

Carlos Almaraz
Crash in Phthalo Green
1984
oil on canvas
Los Angeles County Museum of Art

David Humphrey
Crowded Body
1984
oil on canvas
Denver Art Museum

Claude Flynn Howell
Three Fishermen
1984
oil on canvas
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh

from Shorts

Give me a doctor, partridge-plump,
Short in the leg and broad in the rump,
An endomorph with gentle hands,
Who'll never make absurd demands
That I abandon all my vices,
Nor pull a long face in a crisis,
But with a twinkle in his eye
Will tell me that I have to die.

– W.H. Auden (ca. 1950)