Surplus

Frank Lobdell
November
1961
oil on canvas
Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California

Frank Lobdell
Untitled
1991
colored pencil and crayon on paper
San Jose Museum of Art, California

Frank Lobdell
2.22.93-4.8.93 Bleeker
1993
oil on canvas
San Jose Museum of Art, California

Frank Lobdell
April
1991
tempera and oil stick on paper
San Jose Museum of Art, California

Andrea del Sarto
Portrait of sculptor Baccio Bandinelli
ca. 1520
oil on canvas
Gallerie degli Uffizi, Florence

Andrea del Sarto
St John the Baptist
ca. 1520
oil on panel
Liechtenstein Museum, Vienna

Andrea del Sarto
Virgin and Child with young St John the Baptist
ca. 1522-28
oil on panel
Galleria Sabauda, Turin

Andrea del Sarto
Virgin and Child with young St John the Baptist
ca. 1525
oil on panel
Galleria Borghese, Rome

Tobias Stimmer after Luca Signorelli
Portrait of condottiero Camillo Vitelli
ca. 1570
woodcut
Staatliche Graphische Sammlung, Munich

Tobias Stimmer
Portrait of military adventurer Cesare Borgia
ca. 1570
woodcut
Kupferstichkabinett, Kunstsammlungen der Veste Coburg

Tobias Stimmer
Portrait of physician Pietro Leoni
before 1584
woodcut
Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel

Tobias Stimmer
St Andrew
1578
drawing
Städel Museum, Frankfurt

Pompeo Batoni
St Andrew
ca. 1740-43
oil on canvas
Art Institute of Chicago

Pompeo Batoni
Virgin and Child
ca. 1738-42
oil on canvas
Galleria Borghese, Rome

Pompeo Batoni
Robert Clements, later 1st Earl of Leitrim
1754
oil on canvas
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College,
Hanover, New Hampshire

Pompeo Batoni
William Legge, 2nd Earl of Dartmouth
ca. 1752-56
oil on canvas
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College,
Hanover, New Hampshire

from Part Two of The Age of Anxiety

Emble said:

                                      Who is comforted by it?

     Pent in the packed compulsory ring
     Round father's frown each famus waits his

     Day to dominate. Here a dean sits

     Making bedroom eyes at a beef steak,

     As wholly oral as the avid creatures

     Of the celibate sea; there, sly and wise
     Commuters mimic the Middle Way,

     Trudging on time to a tidy fortune.

     (A senator said: "From swimming hole
     To board-meeting is a big distance.")

     Financiers on knolls, noses pointing

     East towards oil fields, inhale the surplus
     Their bowels boast of, while boys and girls, their 
     Hot hearts covered over with marriage

     To tyrant functions, turn by degrees
     To cold fish, though, precarious on the
     Fringes of their feeling, a fuzzy hope

     Persists somehow that sometime all this

     Will walk away, and a wish gestates

     For explosive pain, a punishing

     Demanded moment of mortal change,
     The Night of the Knock, when none shall sleep,
     The Absolute Instant.

– W.H. Auden (1944-46)