Showing posts with label pairs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pairs. Show all posts

Friday, July 17, 2026

Allies

Ludwig Hohlwein
Pelikan Artist's Paints
ca. 1925
lithograph (poster)
Museum of Modern Art, New York


Josef Maria Eder
Hand of 4-year-old Child
1896
photogravure (book illustration from X-ray)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Frans Hogenberg
Dispute between the City of Cologne and the Archbishop
1571
engraving (left half of broadside)
British Museum

Frans Hogenberg
Dispute between the City of Cologne and the Archbishop
1571
engraving (right half of broadside)
British Museum

Tom Holland
Marble #21
1985
epoxy on marble and aluminum
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Walter von Nessen for Pattyn Products Company
Table Lamp
ca. 1935
aluminum, steel, brass and glass
Museum of Modern Art, New York

Marco Zoppo
Virgin and Child with Eight Angels
ca. 1453-55
oil on panel, transferred to canvas
Musée du Louvre

Marco Zoppo
St Paul
1468
tempera on panel (altarpiece fragment)
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Dirk Jacobsz Vellert
Return of the Holy Family from Egypt
1523
drawing
British Museum

Dirk Jacobsz Vellert
Eve and Cain
1522
etching and engraving
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Tadanori Yokoo
Killed by Roses (Yukio Mishima)
1969
offset-lithograph (book illustration)
Museum of Modern Art, New York

Tadanori Yokoo
Killed by Roses (Yukio Mishima)
1969
offset-lithograph (book illustration)
Museum of Modern Art, New York

Roman Empire
Flask
1st century AD
blown glass
Getty Museum, Los Angeles

Roman Empire
Unguentarium
1st-2nd century AD
blown glass (shape distorted by funeral pyre)
Getty Museum, Los Angeles

Joan Mitchell
Land
1989
oil on canvas
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Joan Mitchell
No Rain
1976
oil on canvas
Museum of Modern Art, New York

After Victory

        Few executions except for the newspaper peers – Viscount Stuford certainly.  The Rev. McFarlane? 
        Duchess of Holbook for the new human zoo.
        Tom to have the Welsh Marches.
        Ian a choice of Durham or Norfolk.
        Edward for films.
        Gabriel to the Foreign department.
        B something he can't spoil.
        Other posts to be decided as quickly as possible.
        Monthly fireworks displays.

– W.H. Auden, The Orators (1931)

Thursday, July 16, 2026

Allies

Tomma Abts
Untitled (Big Circle)
2015
aquatint
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC


Herb Aach
No. 9
1973-74
gouache on paper
Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York

Francesco Botticini
Three Archangels (Michael, Raphael, Gabriel) with Tobias
1470
oil on panel
Gallerie degli Uffizi, Florence

Giuseppe Bezzuoli
St Michael Archangel
1844
oil on canvas
private collection 

Tauba Auerbach
Organize I Poster
2017
laser print and rubber stamp on paper
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Tauba Auerbach
Persevere I Poster
2017
laser print and rubber stamp on paper
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Giuseppe Abbati
Cloister
before 1868
oil on canvas
Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Florence

Manuel Álvarez Bravo
Untitled
ca. 1960
C-print
Museum of Modern Art, New York

Anni Albers
Preliminary Design for Wall Hanging
1926
gouache and graphite on paper
Museum of Modern Art, New York

Otl Aicher
Realistische Weltliteratur der Gegenwart
ca. 1949
photolithograph (poster)
Museum of Modern Art, New York

Dennis Ashbaugh
Agit Prop Tram #2
1974
oil on paper
Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York

Anne Appleby
Coyote Meadow
1999
oil paint and wax on three canvases
Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York

Trophime Bigot
Memento Mori
ca. 1630
oil on canvas
Palazzo Barberini, Rome

Luis Cruz Azaceta
Deadly Rain
1983
acrylic on canvas
Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin

Alice Attie
Untitled
2001
digital print
Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York

Anna Held Audette
Scrap Metal XVII
1997
oil on canvas
Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut

from Journal of an Airman

There are some birds in these valleys
Who flutter round the careless
With intimate appeal,
By seeming kindness trained to snaring,
They feel no falseness.

Under the spell completely 
They circle can serenely,
And in the tricky light
The masked hill has a purer greenness.
Their flight looks fleeter.

But fowlers, O, like foxes,
Lie ambushed in the rushes.
Along the harmless tracks
The madman keeper crawls through brushwood,
Axe under oxter.

Alas, the signal given,
Fingers on trigger tighten.
The real unlucky dove
Must smarting fall away from brightness,
Its love from living.

– W.H. Auden, The Orators (1931)

Tuesday, June 16, 2026

Duets

Arthur Tress
Ocean Beach, San Francisco
1964
gelatin silver print
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (Achenbach Foundation)


Giovanni da San Giovanni (Giovanni Mannozzi)
Hercules and Omphale
ca. 1634-35
fresco on terracotta
Gallerie degli Uffizi, Florence

Eliot Hodgkin
Leaves
1970
tempera on board
Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh

Anonymous American Photographer
Friends holding Hands
ca. 1910
gelatin silver print
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Antoine-François Gérard
La France et la Charte
1827
stone relief on window surround
Musée du Louvre

Gilbert and George
Light-Headed
1991
hand-colored photomontage
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh

attributed to Anton Woensam
St Thomas and St Bartholomew
1518
woodcut
British Museum

Gerhard Richter
Two Candles
1982
oil on linen
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Anonymous American Photographer
Portrait of Sisters
ca, 1855
hand-colored daguerreotype
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
(Achenbach Foundation)

Mike Disfarmer
Untitled
ca. 1940
gelatin silver print
Museum of Modern Art, New York

Betty Woodman
The Portuguese in Japan
2000
glazed earthenware
Museum of Modern Art, New York

Robert Frank
Mick Jagger
1972
gelatin silver print
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

William Lake Price
The Miniature
ca. 1855
albumen print
Princeton University Art Museum

Clarence H. White
Jane and Mary Elizabeth Wilson
1919
platinum print
Museum of Modern Art, New York

Pierre Massé
Square-sided Candlesticks
ca. 1664-65
silver
Musée du Louvre

Judith Joy Ross
Eurana Park - Weatherly, Pennsylvania
1982
gelatin silver print
Museum of Modern Art, New York

Yasuhiro Ishimoto
Untitled
ca. 1949-50
gelatin silver print
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Having abdicated with comparative ease
And dismissed the greater part of your friends;
Escaped in a submarine
With a false beard, hoping the ports were watched.
How shall we greet your arrival;
For it isn't snowing
And no one will take you for a spy.

Of course we shall mention
Your annual camp for the Tutbury glass workers,
Your bird-photography phase, and the Dream at the Hook,
Even the winter in Prague though not very fully:
Your public refusal of a compass
Is fixed for to-morrow.

– W.H. Auden (1930)

Monday, June 15, 2026

Duets

Claes Oldenburg
Two Cheeseburgers with Everything
1962
burlap, plaster and enamel
Museum of Modern Art, New York


Anonymous American Photographer
Women dressed to match
ca. 1940
gelatin silver print
Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York

Herbert Bayer
Things to Come
ca. 1938
photolithograph
Museum of Modern Art, New York

Anonymous American Manufacturer
Pair of Vases
ca. 1870-80
cobalt glass
Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts

Elizabeth Peyton
Prince Harry and Prince William
2000
lithograph
Museum of Modern Art, New York

Henry Swift
Plaster Forms
ca. 1932
gelatin silver print
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Andy Warhol
Silver Marlon
1963
screenprint over silver paint on linen
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Eero Aarnio for Magis (Italy)
Puppy Stools
2005
polyethylene
Museum of Modern Art, New York

Anonymous English Artist
Eye Studies
ca. 1850-1900
drawing
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Charles Courtney Curran
Lotus Blossoms
1888
oil on canvas
Art Institute of Chicago

Anonymous Chinese Sculptor
Coffin Finials
10th-13th century
wood
Princeton University Art Museum

Stuart Davis
Two Heads
1929
lithograph
Museum of Modern Art, New York

Susan Felter
Flying Españas
1982
C-print
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Anonymous American Photographer
Double Studio Portrait
ca. 1955
gelatin silver print
Museum of Modern Art, New York

Nan Goldin
Honda brothers in cherry blossom storm #2 Tokyo
1994
C-print
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Lady Clementina Hawarden
Clementina Maude and Isabella Grace, daughters of the artist
ca. 1863
albumen print
Museum of Modern Art, New York

Philip Guston
Edge of Town
1969
oil on canvas
Museum of Modern Art, New York

As a boy lately come up from the country to town
Returns for the day to his village in expensive shoes,
Standing scornful in a ring of old companions
Amazes them with new expressions, with strange hints
And promises, then leaves them never to return,
Who later will never know of his feverish end
In dockland dosshouse or frozen on the Embankment
Under the luminous dial of Big Ben –
So is the fate of the insolent mind that takes
Truth as itself, in homicidal fantasies
Of itself as the divine punisher of the world,
In aphasia and general paralysis of the insane.

– W.H. Auden (1929)