Thursday, October 8, 2026

Visual Preferences (20th Century: 1987)

Thomas Struth
Hannah Erdrich Hartmann & Jana Maria Hartmann, Düsseldorf
1987
gelatin silver print
Tate Modern, London

Ed Paschke
Cosmetica
1987
oil on linen
Hall Collection, Schloss Derneburg, Germany

Raghubir Singh 
Barber and Goddess Kali, West Bengal
1987
C-print
Art Institute of Chicago

Laurie Simmons
Walking Camera
1987
gelatin silver print
Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston

Lucia Woods Lindley
Sotheby Sale, Wilsford Manor, Wiltshire, Estate of Stephen Tennant
1987
gelatin silver print
Art Institute of Chicago

Bruce Weber
Jerome and his Girlfriend, Paris Studio
1987
gelatin silver print
Victoria & Albert Museum, London

John Walker
Form and Gardenia no. 1
1987
oil on canvas
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh

Cindy Sherman
Untitled #179
1987
C-print
Art Institute of Chicago

Mattie Lou O'Kelley
Packing to Move
1987
oil on canvas
Art Museums of Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia

Judy Rifka
Pomegranates
1987
lithograph
Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami

Christine Osinski
Girls in Locker Room
1987
inkjet print
New Britain Museum of American Art, Connecticut

Arnold Newman
Twyla Tharp
1987
gelatin silver print
Art Institute of Chicago

Michael Ruetz
Callanish: Scottish Symphony #78
1987
dye transfer print
San Diego Museum of Art

John O'Reilly
To-Day
1987
Polaroid collage
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh

Robert Motherwell
Untitled (B.376)
1987
lithograph
Tacoma Art Museum, Washington State

Anne Rowland
Untitled (Judy Garland)
1987
carbon print
Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Hunting Season 

A shot from crag to crag
     The tell-tale echoes trundle;
Some feathered he-or-she
     Is now a lifeless bundle
And, proud into a kitchen, some
Example of our tribe will come.

Down in the startled valley
     Two lovers break apart:
He hears the roaring oven
     Of a witch's heart;
Behind his murmurs of her name
She sees a marksman taking aim.

Reminded of the hour
     And that his chair is hard,
A deathless verse half done,
     One interrupted bard
Postpones his dying with a dish
Of several suffocated fish. 

– W.H. Auden (1952)