French Multiples

Anonymous French Printmaker
Montgolfier Balloon
1783
hand-colored engraving
National Air and Space Museum, Washington DC

Anonymous French Printmaker
Nous jurons de faire baisser la Toile
(textile merchants as parody of Jacques-Louis David's Oath of the Horatii)
ca. 1785
hand-colored engraving
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Anonymous French Printmaker
Winged Geniuses flanking Urn
ca. 1790
block-printed wallpaper dado
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Anonymous French Designer
Griffins
ca. 1800-1820
block-printed wallpaper dado
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Anonymous French Designer
Balusters
ca. 1820-25
block-printed wallpaper dado
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Anonymous French Designer
Balusters
ca. 1820-30
block-printed wallpaper dado
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Anonymous French Designer
Interlacing Garlands
ca. 1825-40
block-printed and flocked wallpaper border
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Anonymous French Designer
Arcaded Stage Scene
ca. 1835-45
block-printed and stenciled wallpaper frieze
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Anonymous French Designer
Scrolls alternating with Flowers
ca. 1850
block-printed wallpaper border
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Anonymous French Designer
Pattern of Tassels
ca. 1860-70
block-printed wallpaper border
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Anonymous French Designer
Air France
1947
lithograph and screenprint (poster)
National Air and Space Museum, Washington DC

Anonymous French Designer
On Vous Intoxique!
1968
screenprint (poster)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Anonymous French Designer
Shopping Bag from Brunschwig & Fils, Paris
ca. 1970
offset-print on paper bag
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Anonymous French Designer
Shopping Bag from Rodier, Paris
ca. 1975
offset-print on paper bag
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Anonymous French Designer
Shopping Bag from Yves Saint-Laurent, Paris
ca. 1979
offset-print on paper bag
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Anonymous French Designer
Ateliers Adultes & Enfants
Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris
ca. 1980
offset-lithograph (poster)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Anonymous French Designer
Insaisissable Sagan
2024
digital advertising graphic
Classiques Garnier, Paris

13 May 1948

    I dreamt I was at a point on Southborough Common which yet was vaguely like the Green outside the West Door of Westminster Abbey, just where the gate opens into Dean's Yard.

    Some tall monument, a sort of pillar clamped with iron to a flat, rather thin base, was about to be demolished by a gang of workmen.  I asked a bystander why it was to be destroyed, and he answered in one of those commonplace, indifferent voices: "Oh, it's not very old, only early Victorian, and it was put up by mistake; besides, it's very ugly."

    I was angry at the wanton destruction and thought the monument not at all ugly.  I wanted to get close to it, so that I could read the inscription, in large Roman capitals, on either side of the base.  But even as I tried to do this a gorilla of a navvy in a very old-fashioned red cap shouted out roughly that the pillar was about to be blown up.  He was chewing all the time, and he spat constantly, a very wet saliva, as if his mouth were full of water.

    All at once something was placed at the base of the column, the workmen tugged on a rope tied to the top, the pillar both blew up and was slapped down by the men with the rope.  I thought that one of the men had been trapped in the collapse, he seemed to be wriggling about in the ruins; then I saw him run out and join the crowd. 

    I was furious and sorry.  I thought, "They've pulled it down now, they've had their imbecile destructive way.  What will they start on next?"

– from The Journals of Denton Welch (who was born in 1915, gravely injured in 1935, then wrote the journals between 1942 and his early death in 1948), edited by Michael De-la-Noy (1984)

Artists Pictured

Willem Drost
Self Portrait as St John the Evangelist
ca. 1655
oil on canvas
Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston, Ontario

Gabriel Revel
Portrait of a Sculptor
ca. 1680
oil on canvas
Portland Art Museum, Oregon

Marie-Anne Perrache
Portrait of sculptor and engineer Antoine-Michel Perrache
ca. 1770-75
oil on canvas
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon

Charlotte Bonaparte
Self Portrait
ca. 1824-26
oil on canvas
Princeton University Art Museum

Fidus (Hugo Höppener)
Elsa Knorr painting
1899
oil on canvas
(sold at Karl & Faber, Munich, 2019)
private collection

Frederic Clay Bartlett
Self Portrait in Mirror
ca. 1925
oil on canvas
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Nora Heysen
Self Portrait
1932
oil on canvas
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Sonia Gechtoff
Self Portrait
1954
oil on canvas
Smithsonian American Art Museum,
Washington DC

James Chapin
Edward Hopper
1956
acrylic on panel
(commissioned by Time magazine)
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

Helen Lessore
Self Portrait
1966
oil on canvas
Arts Council Collection, Southbank Centre, London

Louisa Matthiasdottir
Self Portrait with Yellow Table
1981
oil on canvas
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Neil Winokur
Laurie (Laurie Simmons)
1985
C-print
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

David Hockney
Self Portrait
1986
color photocopy
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

Mary Beth McKenzie
Self Portrait
ca. 1990
oil on canvas
New Britain Museum of American Art, Connecticut

Nan Goldin
David Wojnarowicz at Home, NYC
1990
C-print
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

Louise Bourgeois
Self Portrait
1994
color etching and drypoint
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

Warrington Colescott
Picasso at Mougins: The Etchings
2002
aquatint
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

The Wish

Niobe on Phrygian sands

Turn'd a weeping Statue stands:

And the Panionian Maid

In a Swallows wings arraid;

But a Mirrour I would be,

To be lookt on still by Thee;

Or the Gown wherein thou'rt drest,

That I might thy Limbs invest;

Or a Chrystal spring, wherein

Thou might'st bath thy purer skin;

Or sweet Unguents, to anoint

And make supple every Joynt;

Or a Knot, thy Breast to deck;

Or a Chain, to clasp thy Neck;

Or thy Shoe I wish to be,

That thou might'st but tread on me. 

– from Anacreontea (short anonymous ancient Greek poems in the spirit of Anacreon)

as translated by Thomas Stanley (1651)

Art Chantry

Art Chantry
Moods for Mallards
1982
lithograph (record sleeve)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Art Chantry
Ready for War
at Alonzo Cretini's Salon Politique, Seattle
1982
screenprint (exhibition poster)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Art Chantry
Eleanor Marx by Leonard Angel at the Bathhouse Theatre, Seattle
1984
screenprint (poster)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Art Chantry
him by e.e. cummings
at the Bathhouse Theatre, Seattle
1985
screenprint (poster)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Art Chantry
The Balcony by Jean Genet at New City Theater, Seattle
1985
offset-lithograph (poster)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Art Chantry
Required Etiquette
1987
offset-lithograph (record sleeve)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Art Chantry
Teriyaki Asthma
1989
offset-lithograph (record sleeve)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Art Chantry
Flaming Lips: Drug Machine
1989
offset-lithograph (record sleeve)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Art Chantry
The Derelicts: Don't Wanna Live
1991
offset-lithograph (record sleeve)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Art Chantry
The Full-Custom Gospel Sounds of the Reverend Horton Heat
1993
offset-lithograph (CD jewel-case with paper liner)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Art Chantry
Jack O'Fire
1993
offset-lithograph (record sleeve)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Art Chantry
Art Chantry at Seattle Art Museum
1993
screenprint (exhibition poster)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Art Chantry
SIN at the Weathered Wall, Seattle
1-Year Anniversary
1994
 screenprint (dance party poster)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Art Chantry
The Insomniacs
1994
offset-lithograph (record sleeve)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Art Chantry
The Holidays: "Every Day is a Holiday!"
1994
screenprint (poster)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Art Chantry
An Evening with Kenny G
Kane Hall, UW Campus, Seattle
1994
screenprint (poster)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

from The Consolation of Philosophy

Boethius complaineth, that all things are governed by Gods providence, beside the actions and affayres of men

 

    None from thy laws are free,

Nor can forsake their place ordain'd by Thee.

    Thou that to certaine end

Govern'st all things; denyest thou to intend

    The Acts of men alone,

Directing them in measure from thy throne?

    For why should slipp'ry chance

Rule all things with such doubtfull governance?

    Or why should punishments,

Due to the guilty light on innocents?

    But now the highest place,

Giveth to naughty maners greatest grace,

    And wicked people vexe

Good men, and tread unjustly on their necks,

    Vertue in darknesse lurkes,

And righteous soules are charg'd with impious works.

    Deceites nor Perjuries

Disgrace not those, who colour them with lies,

    For, when it doth them please

To shew their force, they to their will with ease

    The hearts of kings can steare,

To whome so many crouch with trembling feare.

    O thou that joyn'st with love

All worldly things, looke from thy seat above

    On the earthes wretched state,

We men, not the least work thou didst create,

    With fortunes blasts doe shake;

Thou carefull ruler, these fierce tempests slake,

    And for the earth provide

Those laws by which thou heav'n in peace dost guide.

– Boethius (AD 476-524), translated by Michael Walpole (1609)