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Monday, February 2, 2026

Artists Pictured

Hans Namuth
Barnett Newman, Jackson Pollock, Tony Smith
1951
gelatin silver print
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC


Kay Bell Reynal
Max Weber
1952
gelatin silver print
Archives of American Art, Washington DC

Kay Bell Reynal
Mark Rothko
1952
gelatin silver print
Archives of American Art, Washington DC

Kay Bell Reynal
Hans Hofmann
1952
gelatin silver print
Archives of American Art, Washington DC

Kay Bell Reynal
Willem de Kooning
1952
gelatin silver print
Archives of American Art, Washington DC

Raphael Soyer
Edward Hopper
ca. 1953
gelatin silver print
Archives of American Art, Washington DC

Agnès Varda
Alexander Calder with Mobile in Paris
1954
gelatin silver print
Archives of American Art, Washington DC

Anonymous Photographer
Jan Gelb and Minna Citron at Artists Studio, Old Boathouse, Provincetown, Mass.
1954
gelatin silver print
Archives of American Art, Washington DC

Joe Schwartz
Edward Weston at home in Carmel with Paula Schwartz
ca. 1955
gelatin silver print
National Museum of African American History and Culture,
Washington DC

Henriette Wyeth
Andrew Wyeth
1956
oil on canvas
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

Henri Cartier-Bresson
Edward Steichen
1956
gelatin silver print
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

Arthur Swoger
Frank O'Hara, Elaine de Kooning and Franz Kline
at the Cedar Tavern, Greenwich Village

1957
gelatin silver print
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

Charles Bush
Self Portrait
ca. 1957
oil on panel
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

Francis Bacon
Self Portrait
1958
oil on canvas
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC

Imogen Cunningham
Minor White
1959
gelatin silver print
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

Irving Penn
Edward Steichen, New York
1959
platinum-palladium print
Art Institute of Chicago

Howard Wise Gallery (New York)
Emilio Vedova painting Vitalità nell'Arte
1959
gelatin silver print
Archives of American Art, Washington DC

Beauty

Liberal Nature did dispence
To all things Arms for their defence;
And some she arms with sinewy force,
And some with swiftness in the course;
Some with hard Hoofs, or forked claws,
And some with Horns, or tusked jaws.
And some with Scales, and some with Wings,
And some with Teeth, and some with Stings.
Wisdom to Man, she did afford,
Wisdom for Shield, and Wit for Sword.
What to beauteous Woman-kind,
What Arms, what Armour has she assigned?
Beauty is both; for with the Faire
What Arms, what Armour can compare?
What Steel, what Gold, or Diamond,
More Impassible is found?
And yet what Flame, what Lightning ere
So great and Active force did bear?
They are all weapon, and they dart
Like Porcupines from every part.
Who can, alas, their strength express,
Arm'd, when they themselves undress,
Cap a pe with Nakedness?

– from Anacreontea (short anonymous ancient Greek poems in the spirit of Anacreon)
as translated by Abraham Cowley (1656)

Thursday, January 8, 2026

The Vogels

Howard Simon
Dorothy Vogel
ca. 1965-70
oil on canvas
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC


Richard Tuttle
Herbert Vogel
1974
painted wire
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Dorothy Alexander
Dorothy Vogel - 7-sided Figure
1974
gelatin silver print
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Dorothy Alexander
Dorothy Vogel - Clock Tower
1975
gelatin silver print
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Dorothy Alexander
Dorothy Vogel - Subway
1976
gelatin silver print
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Dorothy Alexander
Herbert Vogel - Balcony, 86th Street
1977
gelatin silver print
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Dorothy Alexander
Dorothy Vogel - Metropolitan
1977
gelatin silver print
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Dorothy Alexander
Dorothy Vogel - Bloomingdale's
1979
gelatin silver print
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Michael Clark
Collected Collector (Portrait of Herb)
ca. 1983
oil on linen
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Michael Clark
Collected Collector II (Portrait of Dorothy)
ca. 1983
oil on linen
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
Herbert and Dorothy Vogel
1987
gelatin silver print
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Daryl Trivieri
Herb Vogel - study portrait
1989
acrylic on canvas
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Daryl Trivieri
Dorothy Vogel - second study
1989
oil and acrylic on canvas
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Daryl Trivieri
Dorothy and Herb Vogel
1989
oil on canvas
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Michael Lucero
Dorothy as pre-Columbian Figure
1990
glazed earthenware
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Mariana Cook
Untitled (Portrait of Dorothy and Herb)
1999
gelatin silver print
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Lynda Benglis
Herbert and Dorothy Vogel
ca. 2002
C-print
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Improving My German

All my life I have been trying to improve my German.
At last my German is better!
But now I am old and ill.
I will die soon.
But when they take me to my grave,
I will have,
somewhere in my brain,
better German.

– Lydia Davis, from Into the Weeds (Yale University Press, 2025) 

Friday, November 28, 2025

Affinities - IV

Master of the Altar of Saint Bartholomew
Holy Family
ca. 1495-1500
oil and tempera on panel
Städel Museum, Frankfurt

Rutilio Manetti
Holy Family with young St John the Baptist
ca. 1638-39
oil on canvas
Pinacoteca Crociani, Museo Civico, Montepulciano

Filippino Lippi
St Joachim and St Anne meeting at the Golden Gate
1497
tempera on panel
Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen

Wilhelm Schadow
Joseph interpreting Dreams in Prison
1817
detached fresco
Alte Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Rembrandt van Rijn
Woman and Child descending a Staircase
ca. 1636
drawing
Morgan Library, New York

Ary Scheffer
St Augustine and St Monica
1854
oil on canvas
National Gallery, London

Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld
Scene from Oberon, or, The Elf King
(singspiel by Friederike Sophie Seyler)
ca. 1825
watercolor on paper
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Jan Steen
Ascagnes and Lucelle
(scene from drama Lucelle by Gerbrand Adriaensz Bredero)
1667
oil on canvas
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Auguste Renoir
Marriage Portrait - Alfred Sisley and Lise Tréhot
1868
oil on canvas
Wallraf-Richartz Museum, Cologne

Johann Michael Millitz
Portrait of an Aristocratic Couple as Adam and Eve
ca. 1770-80
oil on canvas
Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest

Michelangelo Buonarroti
Adam and Eve
ca. 1510
drawing
Musée Bonnat-Helleu, Bayonne

Bart van der Leck
Gossip
1913
oil on canvas
Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands

Henriette Lorimier
Jeanne de Navarre with her Son at his Father's Tomb
1806
oil on canvas
Château de Malmaison

Alphonse-Eugène-Félix Lecadre
Le Sommeil
1872
oil on canvas
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nantes

Jean-Pierre Hoüel
Two Satyrs
ca. 1780
etching
Graphische Sammlung, ETH Zürich

Wolfgang Heimbach
The Sick Man
1669
oil on copper
Hamburger Kunsthalle

Messenger:  Yes, our archery was of no avail; the whole host perished, destroyed by the ramming of ships. 

Chorus:  Otototoi, you are saying
                that the dead bodies of our loved ones
                are floating, soaked and constantly buffeted by salt water,
                shrouded in mantles that drift on the waves! 

Messenger:  The shores of Salamis, and all the region near them, are full of corpses wretchedly slain.

Chorus:  Raise a crying voice of woe
                for the wretched fate of our loved ones,
                for the way the gods have caused
                total disaster! Aiai, for our destroyed army!

Messenger:  How utterly loathsome is the name of Salamis to my ears! Ah, how I groan when I remember Athens!

Chorus:  She is indeed hateful to her foes:
                we can remember well
                how many Persian women they caused
                to be bereaved and widowed, all for nothing.

– Aeschylus, from Persians (472 BC), translated by Alan H. Sommerstein (2008)