Outfitted

Anonymous American Designer
Julia
ca. 1835-40
hand-colored lithograph
National Museum of American History, Washington DC

Anonymous American Designer
Paper Doll - opera singer Jenny Lind 
ca. 1850
die-cut chromolithograph
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Anonymous American Designer
Paper Doll - Jenny Lind in Les Huguenots
ca. 1850
die-cut chromolithograph
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Anonymous American Designer
Paper Doll - Jenny Lind in Norma
ca. 1850
die-cut chromolithograph
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Anonymous American Designer
Paper Doll Costume
ca. 1865-70
die-cut and hand-colored lithograph
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Anonymous American Designer
Paper Doll Costume
ca. 1870-75
die-cut and hand-colored engraving
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Anonymous American Designer
Miss Ada Rehan - Harlem Opera House
1898
lithograph (poster)
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

Anonymous American Designer
Cinema Card - Mary Astor
1934
hand-colored offset-print
National Museum of American History,
Washington DC

Anonymous American Designer
Cinema Card - Merna Kennedy
1934
hand-colored offset-print
National Museum of American History,
Washington DC

Xenia Cage
Paper Doll
1935
watercolor and ink on cut-out card
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Xenia Cage
Paper Doll - Two-Piece Suit with Blouse
1935
watercolor and ink on cut-out card
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Xenia Cage
Paper Doll - Evening Gown
1935
watercolor and ink on cut-out card
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Anonymous American Designer
Paper Dolls - Career Girls
ca. 1955
die-cut offset-prints
National Museum of American History, Washington DC

Anonymous American Designer
Wedding-Cake Figure - Bridesmaid
1957
painted plaster
National Museum of American History,
Washington DC

Anonymous American Designer
Picasso
1980
offset-lithograph
(exhibition poster - Walker Art Center, Minneapolis)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Anonymous American Designer
Shopping Bag from Martha, New York
ca. 1990
offset-print on paper bag
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Anonymous American Designer
Sergeant Jacqueline Wiegand, 
U.S. Army Reserve
1993
offset-lithograph (recruiting poster)
National Museum of American History,
Washington DC

from Hell Gate

    Onward led the road again

Through the sad uncoloured plain

Under twilight brooding dim,

And along the utmost rim

Wall and rampart risen to sight

Cast a shadow not of night,

And beyond them seemed to glow

Bonfires lighted long ago.

And my dark conductor broke

Silence at my side and spoke,

Saying, 'You conjecture well;

Yonder is the gate of hell.'

    Ill as yet the eye could see

The eternal masonry,

But beneath it on the dark

To and fro there stirred a spark.

And again the sombre guide

Knew my question, and replied:

'At hell gate the damned in turn

Pace for sentinel and burn.'

– A.E. Housman (1922)

Fame (Erstwhile)

Rudolf Eickemeyer
Evelyn Nesbit
1901
platinum print
National Museum of American History, Washington DC

Alfred J. Frueh
Lillian Russell
ca. 1917
hand-colored linocut
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

Arnold Genthe
Minnie Maddern Fiske
ca. 1920
gelatin silver print
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

Durr Freedley
Boni de Castellane
ca. 1920
oil and tempera on board
Indianapolis Museum of Art

Nickolas Muray
Gertrude Lawrence
1920
gelatin silver print
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

Margrethe Mather
Lilyan Tashman
ca. 1927
gelatin silver print
Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Samuel Woolf
Curtis Bok
1933
charcoal on paper
(commissioned by Time magazine)
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

Anonymous Printmaker
Fay Wray - Cinema Card
1934
hand-colored offset print
National Museum of American History, Washington DC

George Hurrell
Gene Tierney
1944
gelatin silver print
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

Boris Chaliapin
Mel Patton
1948
gouache on board
(commissioned by Time magazine)
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

Fruhauf-Aline-
Herblock (Herbert Lawrence Block)
ca. 1949
ink and watercolor on paper
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

Anonymous-print-USA-
Mary Hartline Paper Dolls
ca. 1950-55
die-cut offset prints
National Museum of American History, Washington DC

W. Eugene Smith
Helen Traubel and Fritz Reiner
1951
gelatin silver print
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

Norman Gorbaty
Willy Brandt
1969
woodcut-
(commissioned by Time magazine)
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

Anonymous Photographer
Patty Hearst
1975
gelatin silver print
(version printed by Time magazine)
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

Anonymous Photographer
Squeaky Fromme
1975
C-print
(version printed by Time magazine)
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

Ken Regan
Bill Graham
1975
gelatin silver print
National Museum of American History, Washington DC

from Divine Epigrams

        Neither durst any man from that Day aske him any more Questions.

Midst all the dark and knotty Snares,

Blacke wit or malice can or dares,

Thy glorious wisdome breakes the Nets,

And treads with uncontrouled steps. 

Thy quel'd foes are not onely now

Thy triumphes, but thy Trophies too:

They, both at once thy Conquests bee,

And thy Conquests memorye.

Stony amazement makes them stand

Waiting on thy victorious hand,

Like statues fixed to the fame

Of thy renoune, and their owne shame.

As if they onely meant to breath,

To bee the Life of their owne Death.

'Twas time to hold their Peace when they,

Had nere another word to say:

Yet is their silence unto thee,

The full sound of thy victory.

Their silence speakes aloud, and is

Thy well pronounc'd Panegyris.

While they speake nothing, they speake all

Their share, in thy Memoriall.

While they speake nothing, they proclaime

Thee, with the shrillest Trumpe of fame.

        To hold their peace is all the waies

        These wretches have to speake their praise.

– Richard Crashaw, Steps to the Temple (1648)

David Levinthal

David Levinthal
Chariot Race (from the History series)
2014
inkjet print
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

David Levinthal
Dallas 1963 (from the History series)
2013
inkjet print
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

David Levinthal
Iwo Jima (from the History series)
2013
inkjet print
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

David Levinthal
Last Stand Hill (from the History series)
2014
inkjet print
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

David Levinthal
Napoleon Crossing the Alps (from the History series)
2013
inkjet print
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

David Levinthal
Sack of Troy (from the History series)
2014
inkjet print
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

David Levinthal
Tournament II (from the History series)
2014
inkjet print
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

David Levinthal
Zero Hour (from the History series)
2014
inkjet print
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

David Levinthal
Untitled (from the Barbie series)
1998
Polaroid
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

David Levinthal
Untitled (from the Barbie series)
1998
Polaroid
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

David Levinthal
Untitled (from the Barbie series)
1998
Polaroid
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

David Levinthal
Untitled (from the Barbie series)
1998
Polaroid
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

David Levinthal
Untitled (from the Barbie series)
1998
Polaroid
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

David Levinthal
Untitled (from the Barbie series)
1998
Polaroid
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

David Levinthal
Untitled (from the Barbie series)
1998
Polaroid
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

David Levinthal
Untitled (from the Barbie series)
1998
Polaroid
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Fragment

Doing, a filthy pleasure is, and short;

And done, we straight repent us of the sport:

Let us not then rush blindly on unto it,

Like lustfull beasts that onely know to doe it:

For lust will languish, and that heat decay.

But thus, thus, keeping endlesse Holy-day,

Let us together closely lie, and kisse,

There is no labour, nor no shame in this;

This hath pleas'd, doth please, and long will please; never

Can this decay, but is beginning ever.  

– Petronius Arbiter (died AD 65), translated by Ben Jonson (before 1618)