Wednesday, October 21, 2026

Visual Preferences (20th Century: 1996)

Issey Miyake
Jacket and Skirt
1996
nylon knit with polyurethane bonding
Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Amy Sillman
Ugly
1996
oil paint and gouache on panel
NSU Art Museum, Fort Lauderdale, Florida

Kristin Capp
Rebecca Walter harvesting Tomatillos
1996
pigment print
Wright Museum of Art, Beloit, Wisconsin

Gary Schneider
John in Sixteen Parts VI
1996
gelatin silver print
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa

Judith Linhares
Jill
1996
oil on linen
San Jose Museum of Art, California

Yvon Gallant
Tea with Prince Charles
1996
acrylic on canvas
New Brunswick Museum, Saint John

Howard Finster
Think of the Whole World
1996
screenprint
Akron Art Museum, Ohio

Evergon (Albert Lunt)
Le Groupe de la Place Royale
1996
gelatin silver print
Ottawa Art Gallery, Ontario

Evergon (Albert Lunt)
Le Groupe de la Place Royale
1996
gelatin silver print
Ottawa Art Gallery, Ontario

Elena Kudinova
Wallpaper from The Wallpaper Project
1996
screenprint on wallpaper
Nasher Museum of Art, Durham, North Carolina

Ad Gerritsen
The Mockingbird
1996
oil on canvas
Kunstmuseum, The Hague

Gerhard Richter
Abstract Painting 825-11.69, Detail
1996
lithograph
(book illustration)
Dallas Museum of Art

Gerhard Richter
Abstract Painting 825-11.69, Detail
1996
lithograph
(book illustration)
Dallas Museum of Art

Gerhard Richter
Abstract Painting 825-11.69, Detail
1996
lithograph
(book illustration)
Dallas Museum of Art

Royal Art Lodge (art collective)
Soldier Hill
1996
pigment and crayon on panel
Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, British Columbia

Robert Stivers
Ostrich
1996
gelatin silver print
Akron Art Museum, Ohio

from Part One of The Age of Anxiety

Rosetta was thinking:
                                     From Seager's Folly
     We beheld what was ours. Undulant land
     Rose layer by layer till at last the sea
     Far away flashed; from fretted uplands
     That lay to the north, from limestone heights
     Incisive rains had dissected well,
     For down each dale industrious there ran
     A paternoster of ponds and mills,
     Came sweet waters, assembling quietly
     By a clear congress of accordant streams
     A mild river that moseyed at will
     Through parks and ploughland, purring southward
     In a wide valley. Wolds on each side
     Came dawdling downwards in double curves,
     Mellow, mature, to meadowlands and
     Sedentary orchards, settled places
     Crowded with lives, fat cattle brooded
     In the shade of great oaks, sheep grazed in
     The ancient hollows of meander scars and
     Long-legged ladies with little-legged dogs
     Lolled with their lovers by lapsing brooks.
     A couth region: consonant, lofty,
     Volatile vault and vagrant buttress
     Showed their shapeliness; with assured ease,
     Proud on that plain, St Peter Acorn,
     St Dill-in-the-Deep, St Dust, St Alb,
     St Bee-le-bone, St-Botolph-the-less,
     High gothic growths in a grecian space,
     Lorded over each leafy parish
     Where country curates in cold bedrooms
     Dreamed of deaneries till at day-break
     The rector's rooks with relish described
     Their stinted station.

– W.H. Auden (1944-46)