Wednesday, August 27, 2025

Expectedness (Sixties)

Jane Freilicher
Wide Landscape
1963
oil on canvas
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York


Stanley Freborg
St Tropez
1960
oil on canvas
Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia

Sidney Goodman
Seated Woman II
1966
oil on linen
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC

Sidney Goodman
The Escape
1960
chalk and sanguine on paper
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC

Sidney Goodman
Night King
1960
 graphite on paper
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC

Jean Dubuffet
L'Instant Propice
1962
oil on canvas
Guggenheim Museum, New York

Jean Dubuffet
Les Inconsistances
1964
acrylic on canvas
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Jean Dubuffet
Nunc Stans
1965
vinyl paint on canvas
Guggenheim Museum, New York

Thomas George
#21 1967
1967
oil and acrylic on canvas
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Paul Feeley
Alruccabah
1964
oil on canvas
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Paul Feeley
Formal Haut
1965
acrylic on canvas
Guggenheim Museum, New York

Ralph Fasanella
Modern Times
1966
oil on canvas
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Richard Estes
The Candy Store
1969
oil and acrylic on linen
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Ger Gerrits
Memory of Switzerland
ca. 1960
gouache on paper
Rijksmuseum, Twenthe

Sam Gilliam
Green Web
1967
acrylic on canvas
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Milton Glaser
Aretha Franklin
1968
offset-lithograph (poster)
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

Milton Glaser
California
1969
colored inks and collage on board
(commissioned by Time magazine)
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

WILLIAM BLAKE (1751-1827) – Although Blake's immediate and direct influence must have been small, there is hardly any poet who exhibits the tendency of his time in metre more variously and vehemently.  In his unhesitating and brilliantly successful use of substitution in octosyllabic couplet, ballad measure, and lyrical adjustments of various kinds, as well as in media varying from actual verse to the rhymed prose of his "Prophetic" books, Blake struck definitely away from the monotonous and select metres of the eighteenth century, and anticipated the liberty, multiplicity, and variety of the nineteenth.  And he differed, almost equally, from all but one or two of his older contemporaries, and from most of his younger for many years, in the colour and "fingering" of his verse.

WILLIAM LISLE BOWLES (1762-1850) – A generally mediocre poet, who, however, deserves a place of honour here for the sonnets which he published in 1789, and which had an immense influence on Coleridge, Southey, and others of his juniors, not merely in restoring that great form to popularity, but by inculcating description and study of nature in connection with the thoughts and passions of men.

– George Saintsbury, from Historical Manual of English Prosody (1910)