Showing posts with label crayon. Show all posts
Showing posts with label crayon. Show all posts

Monday, August 18, 2025

Paradigms (Western)

Herbert Waide Hemphill
Portrait of Hermine Katz, Atlantic City
1949
enamel on board
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC


Vivian Cherry
Dorothy Day
1955
gelatin silver print
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

James Chapin
Suburban Wife
1960
oil on canvas
(commissioned by Time magazine)
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

Jan de Ruth
Ethel Kennedy
1969
oil on canvas
(commissioned by Time magazine)
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

Alex Katz
Woman in a Kitchen
1973
oil on board
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC

Jim Sharpe
Rose Mary Woods, Nixon's White House Secretary
1973
gouache and collage on board
(commissioned by Time magazine)
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

David Lance Goines
Letter from an Unknown Woman
directed by Max Ophuls
Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley

1977
lithograph (poster)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Michael Leonard
Margaret Thatcher
1979
acrylic on board
(commissioned by Time magazine)
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

David Suter
Margaret Thatcher
1981
ink, crayon and colored chalks on paper
(commissioned by Time magazine)
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

Edward Sorel
Margaret Thatcher
1982
watercolor and ink on paper
(commissioned by Time magazine)
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

Brigitte Lacombe
Susan Sarandon
1983
inkjet print
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

Patssi Valdez
Split Image
1987
screenprint
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Bettina Witteveen
Krissy
1998
gelatin silver print
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Helena van der Kraan
Photograph
2010
inkjet print
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam

Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
Christy Turlington
2011
inkjet print
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

Deborah Kass
Gold Barbra
2013
screenprint
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

Annie Leibovitz
Katherine Johnson
2016
pigment print
National Museum of African American History and Culture,
Washington DC

BLANK VERSE – On the analogy of blank cartridge, etc. might be held to designate any kind of verse not tipped, loaded, or filled up with rhyme.  As a matter of fact, however, and for sound historical reasons, it is not usually applied to the more modern unrhymed experiments, from Collins's "Evening" onwards, but is confined to continuous decasyllables.  This measure (which, mutatis mutandis, had already been used by the Italians and Spaniards in the early sixteenth century, and of which curious foreshadowings are found in Chaucer's prose Tale of Melibee and elsewhere) was first attempted in English by the Earl of Surrey in his version of the Æneid.  For a time it was very little imitated, but in the latter half of the century it gradually ousted all other competitors for dramatic use.  It was still out of favour for non-dramatic purposes until Milton's great experiments in the later seventeenth; while about the same period it was for the a time itself laid aside in drama.  But it soon recovered its place there, and has never lost it; while during the eighteenth century it became more and more fashionable for poems proper, and has rather extended than contracted its business since.

– George Saintsbury, from Historical Manual of English Prosody (1910)

Saturday, June 28, 2025

Robert Andrew Parker (1927-2023)

Robert Andrew Parker
Marseille, Night
1955
watercolor on paper
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York


Robert Andrew Parker
Untitled
1957
gouache and ink on paper
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC

Robert Andrew Parker
The Fusileers
1958
gouache, watercolor and ink on paper
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC

Robert Andrew Parker
Los Caprichos
1959
oil on canvas
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC

Robert Andrew Parker
Vincent van Gogh in Saint-Rémy
1961
watercolor on paper
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Robert Andrew Parker
Bulldog in a Chair #2
1962
gouache and ink on paper
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC

Robert Andrew Parker
In County Clare #2
1965
oil on canvas
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC

Robert Andrew Parker
Double Self Portrait
1965
gouache on paper
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC

Robert Andrew Parker
At the Beach
1967
watercolor on paper
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC

Robert Andrew Parker
Baboon
1967
lithograph
Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas

Robert Andrew Parker
Barbary Ape
1967
lithograph
Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas

Robert Andrew Parker
Proboscis Monkey
1967
lithograph
Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas

Robert Andrew Parker
Squirrel Monkey
1967
lithograph
Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas

Robert Andrew Parker
Untitled
before 1969
lithograph
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Robert Andrew Parker
Self Portrait with Karl Marx
Highgate Cemetery

1978
color etching
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC

Robert Andrew Parker
Zhu Rongji
1993
watercolor ink and crayon on paper
(commissioned by Time magazine)
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

Robert Andrew Parker
Mrs Brown
1997
watercolor on paper
New Britain Museum of American Art, Connecticut

The Fifth Ode

Tell me Pyrrha what fine youth
All perfumed and crown'd with Roses
To thy chamber thee pursuth
And thy wanton Arme incloses

What is he thou now hast got
Whose more long and golden tresses
Into many a curious knot
Thy more curious finger dresses

How much will he wayle his trust
And (forsooke) begin to wonder
When black wyndes shall billowes thrust
And breake all his hopes in sunder?

Ficklenes of wyndes he knowes
Very little that doth love thee
Miserable are all those
That affect thee ere they prove thee

I as one from shipwrack freed
To the Oceans mighty Ranger
Consecrate my dropping weed,
And in freedome thinke of danger. 

– Horace (65-8 BC), translated by William Browne (ca. 1625)

Sunday, June 15, 2025

Marisol

Rudy Burckhardt
Marisol Exhibition at Leo Castelli Gallery
1957
photographic print
Archives of American Art, Washington DC


Marisol
Sculptures on View - Leo Castelli 
1957
offset print
(exhibition announcement)
Archives of American Art, Washington DC

Marisol
Untitled Sculpture
(as photographed by Leo Castelli Gallery)
ca. 1957
 found wooden printer's tray with ceramic figures
Archives of American Art, Washington DC

Marisol
Untitled Sculpture
1960
bronze
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC

Marisol
Marisol - Recent Sculpture - Stable Gallery
1962
offset-print
(exhibition invitation)
Archives of American Art, Washington DC

Marisol
The Jazz Wall
1963
painted wood and found objects
Art Institute of Chicago

Marisol
Women and Dog
1963-64
painted wood, plaster and found objects
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Hans Namuth
Marisol Escobar
1964
gelatin silver print
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

Frederick McDarrah
Marisol Escobar in her Studio with Wood Sculpture
1966
gelatin silver print
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

Marisol
Hugh Hefner
1966-67
painted wood, brass and steel
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

Marisol
Bob Hope
1967
painted wood
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

Marisol
Henry Kissinger and Richard Nixon
1972
marble
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

Marisol
I Hate You
1973
colored pencil and crayon on paper
Art Institute of Chicago

Marisol
Cultural Head
1973
lithograph
Art Institute of Chicago

Marisol
Marisol Paints - The New York Cultural Center
1973
lithograph
(exhibition poster)
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC

Marisol
Nelson Rockefeller
1974
carved slate
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

Marisol
Bloodshot
1976
colored pencil on paper
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Channel 13

It came down to this: that merely naming the creatures
                    Spelt their doom.
Three quick moves translated camelopard, dik-dik, and
                    Ostrich from
Grassland to circus to Roman floor mosaic to
                    TV room.

Here self-excusing voices attended (and music,
                    Also canned)
The lark's acrobatics, the great white shark's blue shadow
                    Making sand
Crawl fleshwise. Our ultimate "breakthrough" lenses took it
                    In unmanned.

Now the vast shine of appearances shrinks to a tiny
                    Sun, the screen
Goes black. Anaconda, tree toad, alpaca, clown-face
                    Capuchin 
Launched at hour's end in the snug electronic ark of
                    What has been.

– James Merrill (1985)