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Tuesday, April 21, 2026

Solids

Tony Smith
Wandering Rocks
1967-74
painted steel
Seattle Art Museum


Matteo de' Pasti
Elephant
(reverse of portrait)
1446
bronze medallion
Musées d'Art et d'Histoire, Genève

Rachel Whiteread
Untitled (Library)
1999
steel, polystyrene and plaster
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC

Ferdinand Gallas
Portrait of poet Endre Ady
ca. 1920-30
bronze relief panel
British Museum

Hans Arp (Jean Arp)
Alu with Claws
1942
bronze
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC

Jean Darmand
Anne of Austria, consort of Louis XIII of France
1642
bronze medallion
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Claire Falkenstein
Envelope
1958
steel wire
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Pastorino Pastorini
Nicolosa Bacci, wife of artist Giorgio Vasari
1555
bronze medallion
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Claes Oldenburg
Geometric Mouse: Variation I Scale A
1971
painted aluminum and steel
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC

Cristoforo di Geremia
Fortune bestowing Fame
ca. 1455-75
bronze plaquette
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

attributed to Simone Bianco
Bust of Julius Caesar
ca. 1520
bronze
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

Piero Paolo Galeotti
Circular Temple with City in Background
ca. 1552
bronze medallion
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Markus Lüpertz
Mozart Bust
2005
bronze (partly painted)
Kunstmuseum, The Hague

Balthasar Ferdinand Moll
Holy Roman Emperor Francis I
(posthumous portrait) 
ca. 1775
bronze
Belvedere Museum, Vienna

Jeff Koons
Kiepenkerl
1987
stainless steel
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC

Antoine-André Ravrio
Clock
1807-1810
bronze, enameled metal, glass
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Isaac Witkin
Africa
1976-77
steel
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC

    Now do our eyes behold
    The tidings which were told:
Twin fallen kings, twin perished hopes to mourn,
    The slayer, the slain,
The entangled doom forlorn
    And ruinous end of twain.
Say, is not sorrow, is not sorrow's sum
On home and hearthstone come?
    O waft with sighs the sail from shore,
O smite the bosom, cadencing the oar
That rows beyond the rueful stream for aye
    To the far strand,
    The ship of souls, the dark,
    The unreturning bark
Whereon light never falls nor foot of Day,
Ev'n to the bourne of all, to the unbeholden land. 

–  Aeschylus, from Septem Contra Thebas, translated by A.E. Housman (before 1936)

Monday, April 20, 2026

Solids

Ursula von Rydingsvard
Dumna
2015
bronze
New Orleans Museum of Art


Friedrich Hagenauer
Portrait of a Young Man
before 1546
bronze medallion
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Hans Arp
Evocation d'une Forme Humaine, Lunaire, Spectrale
created 1950 - this enlarged version cast in 1957
bronze
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC

Antico (Pier Jacopo Alari Bonacolsi)
Diva Giulia
ca. 1500-1502
bronze medallion
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Bernard Rosenthal
Rondo
1965
bronze on marble base
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Piero Paolo Galeotti
Bianca Pansana Carcania
before 1587
bronze medallion
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Barbara Hepworth
Figure for Landscape
1960
bronze
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC

attributed to Giovanni Candida
Maximilian I, Archduke of Austria (later Emperor)
1477
bronze medallion
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Albert Paley
Portal Gates for the Renwick Gallery
(winning entry in design competition)
1974
bronze, steel, brass, copper
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Guillaume Dupré
Maria Magdalena, consort of Cosimo II de' Medici
1613
bronze medallion
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Henri Matisse
Copy after Puget's Écorché
1903
bronze
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC

Giovanni Battista Cambi (il Bombarda)
Violante Brasavola
ca. 1565-75
bronze medallion
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Mark Grotjahn
Untitled (Blue Purple Left Red Streak Mask M15.c)
2011
painted bronze
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Giovanni da Cavino
Portrait of Alessandro Bassiano with Self Portrait
before 1570
bronze medallion
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Jean Broome-Norton
Woman with Horses
1934
patinated bronze relief
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Pietro Calvi
Ira Aldridge as Othello
ca. 1870
bronze and marble
Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia

Ferdinand Barbedienne
Allegorical Figure
ca. 1880-90
bronze
Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto

The Defeated

In battles of no renown
My fellows and I fell down,
And over the dead men roar
The battles they lost before.

The thunderstruck flagstaffs fall,
The earthquake breaches the wall,
The far-felled steeples resound,
And we lie under the ground.

O soldiers, saluted afar
By them that had seen your star,
In conquest and freedom and pride
Remember your friends that died.

Amid rejoicing and song
Remember, my lads, how long,
How deep the innocent trod
The grapes of the anger of God.

– A.E. Housman (1936)

Sunday, April 19, 2026

Solids

Agostino Zoppo after Jacopo Sansovino
Door Knocker as Triton
ca. 1550
bronze
Bayerisches Nationalmuseum, Munich


Matteo de' Pasti
Portrait of Isotta degli Asti
(3rd wife of Sigismondo Malatesta)
1446
bronze medallion
Musées d'Art et d'Histoire, Genève

Auguste Rodin
First Maquette for The Burghers of Calais

1884
bronze
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh

workshop of Riccio (Andrea Briosco)
Portrait of Riccio
ca. 1532
bronze medallion
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Giovanni Francesco Susini
The Farnese Bull
ca. 1630
bronze
(after an antique group in Naples)
Liechtenstein Museum, Vienna

Francesco Laurana
Jean d'Anjou, Duke of Calabria and Lorraine
1464
bronze medallion
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Andrew Rogers
Unfurling
2006
bronze
Heide Museum of Modern Art, Bulleen, Australia

Friedrich Hagenauer
Giovanni Alessandro Balbiani, Count of Chiavenna
(mercenary leader of German troops against French and Italians) 
1529
bronze medallion
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Benvenuto Cellini
Portrait of banker and arts patron Bindo Altoviti
1549
bronze
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

Pietro Paolo Galeotti
Cassandra Marinoni
ca. 1552
bronze medallion
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Jacques Bousseau
Warrior bending Bow
1715
bronze
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Niccolò Fiorentino (Niccolò di Forzore Spinelli)
Lodovica Tornabuoni
ca. 1485-86
bronze medallion
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Viktor Hammer
Mourning Woman
1966
bronze
Wiesbauer Family Grave, Hietzing Cemetery, Vienna

Giovanni Battista Cambi (il Bombarda)
Portrait of Leonora, wife of the artist
ca. 1565-75
bronze medallion
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Isaac Witkin
Firebird
1983
bronze
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Francesco da Sangallo
Elena Marsuppini, wife of the artist
1551
bronze medallion
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Gaston Lachaise
Standing Figure
ca. 1927
bronze
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Oh who is that young sinner with the handcuffs on his wrists?
And what has he been after that they groan and shake their fists?
And wherefore is he wearing such a conscience-stricken air?
Oh they're taking him to prison for the colour of his hair.

'Tis a shame to human nature, such a head of hair as his;
In the good old time 'twas hanging for the colour that it is;
Though hanging isn't bad enough and flaying would be fair
For the nameless and abominable colour of his hair.

Oh a deal of pain he's taken and a pretty price he's paid
To hide his poll or dye it of a mentionable shade;
But they've pulled the beggar's hat off for the world to see and stare,
And they're taking him to justice for the colour of his hair.

Now 'tis oakum for his fingers and the treadmill for his feet,
And the quarry-gang on Portland in the cold and in the heat,
And between his spells of labour in the time he has to spare
He can curse the God that made him for the colour of his hair.

– A.E. Housman (1936)