Texts

Robert Delford Brown
Meat Show
(by special arrangement with Sioux City Packing Corp.)
1964
lithograph (exhibition flyer)
Archives of American Art, Washington DC

Anonymous Printmaker
No Draft - Don't Enlist - Refuse To Kill
ca. 1969
offset lithograph (poster)
National Museum of American History, Washington DC

Anonymous Printmaker
Shopping Bag from Marboro Books, New York
ca. 1970
offset print on paper bag
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

attributed to Benedetto Bordone
Poliphilo greeted by Philtronia
1499
woodcut and letterpress
(from the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili of Francesco Colonna
published by Aldus Manutius in Venice)
Hamburger Kunsthalle

Kristen Morgin
Monopoly
2007
painted clay
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Steven Shearer
I know all about broken dreams
1994
acrylic on canvas
Museum London, Ontario

Lawrence Weiner
Lawrence Weiner - Twenty Works
1980
lithograph (exhibition poster)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Ivan Chermayeff
The Invisible City
(airport luggage tags)
1972
offset-lithograph (poster)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Philippe Apeloig for Hermès
Shawl
(text pages of Fragments d'un Discours Amoureux by Roland Barthes)
2016
screenprinted cashmere and silk
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

León Ferrari
The Despair of the Outcasts in Hell
2005
drawing
Art Institute of Chicago

Adolph Gottlieb
Pictograph
1949
oil, tempera, gouache and casein on linen
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC

Robert Delford Brown
Another Map to Nevada
ca. 2000
printed map of Paris overwritten with markers
Archives of American Art, Washington DC

He Jianping
He Jianping - In Between
2012
screenprint (exhibition poster)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Ray Johnson
Pen Pals
1969
collage and ink on paper
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Claes Oldenburg
Claes Oldenburg: Projects for Monuments
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
1967
lithograph (exhibition poster)
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Peter Tyndall
Congratulations
1987
screenprint
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Duane Michals
Time is Such a Funny Thing
1992
gelatin silver print
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh

Time is Such a Funny Thing

Time is such a funny thing,

It's like a hole inside a ring,

    It's always now and never then.

But when I say it's now again,

    It's never now but always then.

We're always here and never there,

    But we go from here to there,

Then is here and here is there.

Should you think you're very tall,

    Next to a tree you're not at all

And if you think you're small,

    Beside a bee you're ten feet tall.

When we dream, we seem awake,

    But all along the dream was fake.

To me I'm "I" and never you,

You say you're "I" and also me,

    I know that's true, how can that be,

Since I'm not you, and you're not me. 

    Time is not what you might think,

        It is and isn't in a wink.

 

– Duane Michals

Graphemes (Artistic)

Anonymous European Makers
Apothecary Bottle
18th century
enamel on glass
National Museum of American History, Washington DC

Anonymous American Makers
The Nation Mourns A Hero Gone - Lafayette
1834
printed silk ribbon
National Museum of American History, Washington DC

Frances Jocelyn
Edith
ca. 1860
mounted albumen silver print and watercolor on paper
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Max Beckmann
Fastnacht (Carnival)
1922
drypoint
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri

David Hockney
Picture of Melrose Avenue
in an Ornate Gold Frame
1965
lithograph
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam

Gertrude Morgan
Jesus is My Air Plane
ca. 1970
tempera and ink on paper
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Joe Tilson
Alcheringa 1 Fire
1971
screenprint
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Herbert Sigüenza
It's Simple Steve
ca. 1980
screenprint
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Robert Cottingham
Ral's
1983
hand-colored lithograph
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Madonna Staunton
The Morning Finger Does Not Point the Way
1989
cut and printed paper collage on paper
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Alexander Gelman
Walls of the City
1992
screenprint
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Dale Strattman
MM at Midnight KS
2001
gelatin silver print
Wichita Art Museum, Kansas

Jesus Barraza
Edward Said
2005
screenprint
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Mark Grotjahn
Untitled
(Ten Dollar Foxes, White on Red Mask M14 d)
2012
oil paint on bronze
Guggenheim Museum, New York

Lawrence Weiner
With a Shift
2013
screenprint
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Laura Owens
Untitled
2014
mixed media on canvas
Guggenheim Museum, New York

Jess Johnson
Swarmachine
2018
gouache and felt marker on paper
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

from Divine Epigrams

        Our Lord in his Circumcision to his Father.

To thee these first fruits of my growing death
(For what else is my life?) lo I bequeath.
Tast this, and as thou lik'st this lesser food
Expect a Sea, my heart shall make it good.
Thy wrath that wades heere now, e're long shall swim
The flood-gate shall be set wide ope for him.
Then let him drinke, and drinke, and doe his worst,
To drowne the wantonnesse of his wild thirst. 
Now's but the Nonage of my paines, my feares
Are yet but in their hopes, not come to yeares. 
The day of my darke woes is yet but morne,
My teares but tender and my death new-borne.
Yet may these unfledg'd griefes give fate some guesse,
These Cradle-torments have their towardnesse.
These purple buds of blooming death may bee,
Erst the full stature of a fatall tree.
And till my riper woes to age are come,
This knife may be the speares Præludium. 

– Richard Crashaw, Steps to the Temple (1648)