Lewis Baltz

Lewis Baltz
Sausalito #14
1968
gelatin silver print
Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California

Lewis Baltz
Tract House #1
1971
gelatin silver print
Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California

Lewis Baltz
Tract House #5
1971
gelatin silver print
Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California

Lewis Baltz
Tract House #7
1971
gelatin silver print
Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California

Lewis Baltz
Tract House #20
1971
gelatin silver print
Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California

Lewis Baltz
Public Places - Berkeley, California (#1A)
1972
gelatin silver print
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Lewis Baltz
Public Places - Claremont, California (#2A)
1973
gelatin silver print
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Lewis Baltz
Public Places - Houston, Texas
1973
gelatin silver print
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Lewis Baltz
Public Places - South El Monte
1973
gelatin silver print
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Lewis Baltz
Nevada 1 - Reno-Sparks looking South
1977
gelatin silver print
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Lewis Baltz
Nevada 3 - Hidden Valley looking Southwest
1977
gelatin silver print
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Lewis Baltz
Nevada 10 - Mill Street, Reno
1977
gelatin silver print
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Lewis Baltz
Nevada 11 - Lemmon Valley looking North
1977
gelatin silver print
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Lewis Baltz
Park City 31 - Snowflower Condominiums looking Southeast
1979
gelatin silver print
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Lewis Baltz
Park City 33 - Snowflower Condominiums looking East
1979
gelatin silver print
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Lewis Baltz
Park City 37 - Park Meadows Subdivision 3, Lot 39 looking Northwest
1979
gelatin silver print
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Lewis Baltz
Park City 89 - Park City interior 28
1979
gelatin silver print
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Dido's Lament, from The Heroides

While stormie seas grow calme,

    while custom tempers love:

How patiently mishaps to beare,

    I shall the practise prove.

If not, my life to spill

    with full intent I mind:

Of crueltie thou canst not long

    in me a subject find.

Would God thou didst but see

    mine Image as I wright:

I wright, and full against my breast

    thy naked sword is pight.*

And downe my cheeks along

    the teares do trickling fall:

Which by and by in stead of teares,

    ingrayne in blood I shall.

– Ovid (43 BC-AD 17), translated by George Turberville (1567)

*pight - past tense of pitch, here signifying thrust

Franz Kline

Franz Kline
The Chair
1950
oil on canvas
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis

Franz Kline
Untitled
1950
acrylic on newsprint
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Franz Kline
Painting no. 7
1952
oil on canvas
Guggenheim Museum, New York

Franz Kline
Untitled
1952
oil on paper, mounted on canvas
Guggenheim Museum, New York

Franz Kline
Orange Outline
1955
oil on paper, mounted on canvas
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh

Franz Kline
Composition
1955
oil, graphite and ink on paper
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Franz Kline
Head
ca. 1956-60
gouache on paper
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Franz Kline
Untitled
1957
oil on paper
Phillips Collection, Washington DC

Franz Kline
Untitled
1957
ink on paper
Phillips Collection, Washington DC

Franz Kline
Sketch for Corinthian
1958
collage and ink on paper
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis

Franz Kline
Untitled
ca. 1959
oil on paper
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Franz Kline
Blueberry Eyes
1959-60
oil on board
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Franz Kline
Black and White no. 2
1960
oil on canvas
Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, Texas

Franz Kline
Merce C.
1961
oil on canvas
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Franz Kline
Untitled
ca. 1961
oil on cardboard
Huntington Museum of Art, Huntington, West Virginia

Franz Kline
Red Painting
1961
oil on canvas
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Franz Kline
Slate Cross
1961
oil on canvas
Dallas Museum of Art

from The Opera Company

After the war

No jewel remained but feeling.

The head held itself high beneath

Instinct red and branchy, torn from depths,

The bleached jaws of the serpent or the cat.

No more tiaras. Joys, humiliations,

Greed's bluewhite choker, guilt beading the brow –

Thus we arrayed

Our women, and were proud.

The actual stones were kept or not, like Bibles,

Never used.

Meanwhile an old pitfall came to light.

When hadn't there been counterfeit

Emotions? But these now

Went undetected at the gala nights,

And "lumps of primal pain"

Were worn by daylight in resorts.

So much so, that many are preferring

To sit dry-eyed through the opera, to climb down

From the shabby rafters, having watched

Merely, and listened.

How beautiful these last performances

That fail to move us!

– James Merrill (1969)

Transcriptions - Cool

Evelyn Hofer
Jammet's, Dublin
1966
gelatin silver print
High Museum of Art, Atlanta

Ilse Bing
Salut de Schiaparelli
(publicity shot for perfume)
1934
gelatin silver print
High Museum of Art, Atlanta

Éditions Paul Martial (Paris)
Sliced Mattress
ca. 1928-29
gelatin silver print
Kupferstichkabinett, Kunstmuseum, Basel

Baron Adolf De Meyer
Maenad in L'Après-midi d'un Faune
1912
palladium print
Princeton University Art Museum

Hans Bellmer
La Poupée
ca. 1934
gelatin silver print
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Thomas Struth
Corso Vittorio Emanuele, Naples
1989
gelatin silver print
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam

Richard Avedon
Polly Mellen, Fashion Editor
1975
gelatin silver print
High Museum of Art, Atlanta

Les Gray
Colonnade Figure
(series, Assignment Rome)
1972
gelatin silver print
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

George Platt Lynes
Portrait of painter Marsden Hartley
1943
gelatin silver print
Princeton University Art Museum

Marsha Burns
White Snow Goose Sequence
ca. 1976
gelatin silver print
Princeton University Art Museum

Ruth Bernhard
Classic Torso
1952
gelatin silver print
Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio

Anonymous French Photographer
Fencers
ca. 1900
gelatin silver prints
(stereocard)
Wellcome Collection, London

Berenice Abbott
Untitled
ca. 1925
gelatin silver print
Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts

John Yang
Untitled
1990
platinum print
High Museum of Art, Atlanta

Edward Weston
Untitled
(Tombstone Sculpture by William Edmondson)
1941
gelatin silver print
High Museum of Art, Atlanta

Hiroshi Sugimoto
Diorama with Ostriches
1980
gelatin silver print
High Museum of Art, Atlanta

Love and Death

Behold the flashing waters,
     A cloven, dancing jet,
That from the milk-white marble
     For ever foam and fret;
Far off in drowsy valleys
     Where the meadow saffrons blow,
The feet of summer dabble

     In their coiling calm and slow. 
The banks are worn for ever
     By a people sadly gay:
A Titan, with loud laughter,
     Made them of fire and clay.
Go ask the springing flowers
     And the flowing air above,
What are the twin-born waters,
     And they'll answer Death and Love.

With wreaths of withered flowers
     Two lonely spirits wait,
With wreaths of withered flowers,
    'Fore paradise's gate.
They may not pass the portal,
     Poor earth-enkindled pair,
Though sad is many a spirit
     To pass and leave them there
Still staring at their flowers,
     That dull and faded are.
If one should rise beside thee,
     The other is not far.
Go ask the youngest angel,
     She will say with bated breath,
By the door of Mary's garden
     Are the spirits Love and Death.

– W.B. Yeats (1885)