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Sunday, August 30, 2026

Binders

Karl Zerbe
Gloucester Alley
1943
encaustic on panel
Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York


Victor Brauner
Pantacular Progression
1948
encaustic on cardboard
Museum of Modern Art, New York

Adolph Gottlieb
Archer
1951
casein, gouache and oil on canvas
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Jasper Johns
Green Target
1955
encaustic on newspaper, mounted on canvas
Museum of Modern Art, New York

Gerd Leufert
Untitled
1955
casein on panel
Museum of Modern Art, New York

Antonio Saura
15 Faces
1957
oil paint, enamel, ink and casein on paper, mounted on board
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC

Beatrice Mandelman
Untitled (Lyrical Forms)
ca. 1957-59
oil paint and casein on panel
Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York

Andy Warhol
100 Cans
1962
casein, spray paint and graphite on cotton
Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York

Sasson Soffer
The Tides
1962-63
encaustic on canvas
Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York

Nancy Graves
Approaches the Limit Of
1978
oil paint and encaustic on canvas
Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York

Sherrie Levine
Large Check: 1
1987
casein and wax on mahogany
Museum of Modern Art, New York

Sherrie Levine
Large Check: 2
1987
casein and wax on mahogany
Museum of Modern Art, New York

Jasper Johns
Bushbaby
2003
encaustic on canvas with wood
Museum of Modern Art, New York

William Allan
Plum Ripe
2013-14
painted lima beans glued to textured paper
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Sadie Benning
Julie's Rug
2014
acrylic paint, resin and casein on panel
Museum of Modern Art, New York

Sadie Benning
Blow-up 1
2017
acrylic paint, resin and casein on panel
Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York

Steve Locke
Homage to the Auction Block
2019
casein on panel
Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston

from Lines
(written at Geneva)

                        Some wretches are
Now lying with the last and only bone
Of their old selves, and that one worm alone
That ate their heart: some, buried just, behold
Their weary flesh, like an used mansion, sold
Unto a stranger, and see enter it
The earthquake winds and waters of the pit,
Or children's spirits in its holes to play. 

– Thomas Lovell Beddoes (1824) 

Tuesday, July 7, 2026

Cousins

Anne Appleby
Untitled
1992
oil paint and wax on canvas
Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York


Rudolf de Crignis
#01.37
2001
oil on canvas
Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York

Alfonso Fratteggiani Bianchi
Senza Titolo, Blu
2004
pigment on stone
Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York

Gottfried Honegger
Z-611
1970
acrylic paint on cast fiberglass
Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York

Heiner Thiel
Untitled
1998
anodized aluminum
Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York

Ludwig Sander
Composition - Blue
1960
oil paint and crayon on canvas
Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York

Wolfgang Tillmans
Konzentrische Kreise
1999
C-print
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Arthur Wesley Dow
Pelham, New York
ca. 1890
cyanotype
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Mark Tansey
Lens
1999
oil on canvas
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh

Robert Motherwell
The August Sea #6
1972
acrylic on canvas
Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York

William Scott
Blue Painting
1960
oil on canvas
Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York

Brice Marden
6 (Course)
1987-88
oil on linen
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

David Schnell
Schleier
2012
oil on canvas
Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin

Willem de Kooning
A Tree in Naples
1960
oil on canvas
Museum of Modern Art, New York

Sean Scully
Landline Blue Sea
2016
oil on aluminum
Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut

Saliba Douaihy
Sea Wind
1966
oil on canvas
Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York

Alice Makara
SS #4
1978
acrylic on canvas
Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York

from Argument

    Wrap gifts in clothes, prepare a present for a simpler nation.  A heliograph seen from below, a camera with smuggled lenses: a soured drink for the tongue, a douche for the unpopular member, a dream dirt-cheap for the man of action.  Leave the corks behind as warning of wires, let the shafts be fenced as before, leave ordinary kindness. 
    Going abroad tonight?  The face lit up by the booking-clerk's window.  Poetry of the waiting room.  Is it wise, the short adventure on the narrow ship?  The boat-train dives accomplished for the hoop of the tunnel; over the derne cutting lingering, its white excreta.  Too late: smelling the first sea-weed we may not linger.  The waving handkerchiefs recede and the gulls wheel after screaming for scraps.  Throb of turbines below water, passing the mud islands, the recurrent light.  Past.  Handrail, funnel, oilskins, them, His will.  The lasting sky. 

– W.H. Auden, The Orators (1931)

Sunday, February 1, 2026

Centered - I

Gösta von Hennigs
Clown
ca. 1912
oil on canvas
Prins Eugens Waldemarsudde, Stockholm

Hans Simon Holtzbecher
Fritillaria imperialis
ca. 1665-70
gouache on vellum
Kupferstichkabinett,
Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Hollerbaum & Schmidt
Der Tag
ca. 1905
lithograph (poster)
Kunstbibliothek, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Charles Dana Gibson
Scribner's for June
1895
lithograph (poster)
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Bernd and Hilla Becher
Cooling Tower - Neunkirchen, Saargebiet
1970
gelatin silver print
Moderna Museet, Stockholm

Anonymous German Artist
Shrine
ca. 1750
carved and painted wood, colored wax and fabric
Detroit Institute of Arts

Anonymous Artist
Design for Urn
ca. 1860
drawing
Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Vienna

Anonymous German Artist
Ex Libris - Hommel
ca. 1750-1800
etching
Herzog August Bibliothek, Wulfenbüttel

Jean-François Baudart
Académie
1797
drawing
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Valenciennes

Paul Cézanne
Study of the Venus de Milo
ca. 1881-84
drawing
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Eugène Delacroix
Drapery Study for the Virgin
ca. 1820
drawing
(study for altarpiece painting)
Musée de Grenoble

Anonymous Italian Artist
Hercules
ca. 1500-1520
drawing
Yale University Art Gallery

Carl Jacob Malmberg
Untitled
ca. 1875
albumen print
Moderna Museet, Stockholm

Kasimir Malevich
Woman with a Rake
ca, 1928
oil on canvas
State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow

Caspar David Friedrich
Wanderer above Sea of Fog
ca. 1817
oil on canvas
Hamburger Kunsthalle

Vilhelm Hammershøi
Bedroom
1890
oil on canvas
Hirschsprung Collection, Copenhagen

Do not judge the man by the stone. Simple is the tomb to look on, but holds the bones of a great man. Thou shalt know Alcman the supreme striker of the Laconian lyre, possessed by the nine Muses. Here resteth he, a cause of dispute to two continents, if he be a Lydian or a Spartan. Minstrels have many mothers.

Alcman the graceful, the swan-singer of wedding hymns, who made music worthy of the Muses, lieth in this tomb, a great ornament to Sparta, or perhaps at the last he threw off his burden and went to Hades.

                                                  *                      *                    *

O Sophocles, son of Sophillus, singer of choral odes, Attic star of the tragic Muse, whose locks the curving ivy of Acharnae often crowned in the orchestra and on the stage, a tomb and a little portion of earth hold thee; but thy exquisite life shines yet in thy immortal pages.

Gently over the tomb of Sophocles, gently creep, O ivy, flinging forth thy green curls, and all about let the petals of the rose bloom, and the vine that loves her fruit shed her pliant tendrils around, for the sake of that wise-hearted beauty of diction that the Muses and Graces in common bestowed on the sweet singer. 

– from Book VI (Sepulchral Epigrams) of the Greek Anthology, translated and edited by W.R. Paton (1917)