Huge Engines

Karel Appel
Head
1964
lithograph
Museum de Fundatie, Zwolle, Netherlands

Karel Appel
Personage et Animal
1967
oil on canvas
Phoenix Art Museum, Arizona

Karel Appel
Three Heads
ca. 1960-70
lithograph
NSU Art Museum, Fort Lauderdale, Florida

Karel Appel
Untitled
1976
gouache and ink on paper, mounted on canvas
NSU Art Museum, Fort Lauderdale, Florida

Imogen Cunningham
Frida Kahlo
1931
gelatin silver print
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa

Imogen Cunningham
Glacial Lily (False Hellebore)
1927
gelatin silver print
Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California

Imogen Cunningham
In My Garden at 1331 Green Street
ca. 1950
gelatin silver print
Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington

Imogen Cunningham
Nude Study, John Bovingdon
ca. 1930
gelatin silver print
New Orleans Museum of Art

Hans Memling
King David and Bathsheba
ca. 1485
oil on panel
(fragment with David and Page)
Staatsgalerie Stuttgart

Hans Memling
Portrait of a Man with a Roman Coin
ca. 1471-74
oil on panel
Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp

Hans Memling
St Veronica
ca. 1470-75
oil on panel
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Hans Memling
Virgin and Child with St Anthony Abbot and Donor
1472
oil on panel
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa

John Singer Sargent
Chiron and young Achilles
ca. 1917-21
drawing
(study for mural, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

John Singer Sargent
Chiron and young Achilles
ca. 1917-21
drawing
(study for mural, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

John Singer Sargent
Torso Studies for Crucifixion
ca. 1903-1916
drawing
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

John Singer Sargent
Torso Study
ca. 1910-20
drawing
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

from Part Two of The Age of Anxiety

Quant said:     
                                                               O
     Secret meetings at the slaughter-house
     With nickels and knives, initiations
     Behind the billboards. Then the hammerpond looked
     So green and grim, yet graciously its dank
     Water made us welcome – once in, we
     Swam without swearing. The smelting mill
     We broke into had a big chimney
     And huge engines; holding our breath, we
     Lighted matches and looked at the gears,
     The cruel dogwheels, the crank's absolute
     Veto on pleasure. In a vacant lot
     We built a bonfire and burned alive
     Some stolen tires. How strong and good one
     Felt at first, how fagged coming home through
     The urban evening. Heavy like us
     Sank the gas-tanks – it was supper time.
     In hot houses helpless babies and
     Telephones gabbled untidy cries,
     And on embankments black with burnt grass
     Shambling freight-trains were shunted away
     Past crimson clouds. 

– W.H. Auden (1944-46)