Wednesday 31 October 2012

Allen & William

Allen Ginsberg & William S. Burroughs, ca.1990
Photo: Associated Press

Toy Vendor, Chinatown, San Francisco ca.1900
Photo: Arnold Genthe

Tuesday 30 October 2012

 Dora Maar 1944
Photo: George Brassaï

Dora Maar with Cat
Pablo Picasso 1941

Monday 29 October 2012

La Voiture Fondue 1944
Photo: Robert Doisneau

 Be-Bop en cave
Saint Germain des Prés, Paris 1951
Photo: Robert Doisneau

Sunday 28 October 2012

Saturday 27 October 2012

 L'etudiant a la pipe
Pablo Picasso, Winter 1913-14

Room B

Friday 26 October 2012

Vincent van Gogh

The Carrot Puller
Vincent van Gogh 1885

Pollard-Birches, Nuenen
Vincent van Gogh 1884

Thursday 25 October 2012

Georgia O'Keeffe 1918
 Photo: Alfred Stieglitz

Don't Look!

Wednesday 24 October 2012

Schwitters

Mz 601, Paint & Paper on Cardboard
Kurt Schwitters 1923

Merzbild Rossfett
Kurt Schwitters ca.1919

Tuesday 23 October 2012

Monday 22 October 2012

Hannah Höch

Hannah Höch
Dressed as one of her Figurines
ca.1925

Photomontage
by Hannah Höch 1946

Sunday 21 October 2012

Two Self-Portraits

Portrait of a Man
  Jan van Eyck 1433
(Self-Portrait?)

Francis Bacon Self-Portrait 1980
 (Centre Panel, Triptych)

Saturday 20 October 2012

Myf Shepherd
Flair 2011
Photo: Jean-François Campos

Self-portrait in a Straw Hat
Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, after 1782
Oil on canvas

Friday 19 October 2012

Vermeer

The Milkmaid
Johannes Vermeer ca.1658

Girl with a Red Hat 
Johannes Vermeer ca.1665-66

Thursday 18 October 2012

The Acid Test - Neil Cassady 1966
Photo: Lawrence Schiller

Wednesday 17 October 2012

Participants of the Märchenball,
Munich 1862  
Photo: Attributed to Franz Hanfstaengl 

Carl Spitzweg Poet & Painter ca.1860
Photo: Franz Hanfstaengl

The Poor Poet
Carl Spitzweg 1839

Tuesday 16 October 2012

Woman I
Willem de Kooning 1950-52

Woman V
Willem de Kooning 1952-53

Monday 15 October 2012

Attic
Willem de Kooning 1949

Pale Blue with my Favorite Green
by Ray Wallis 2012

Sunday 14 October 2012

Alfred Stieglitz, Photographer 1902
Photo: Gertrude Käsebier

A Snapshot of Paris 1911
Photo: Alfred Stieglitz

Saturday 13 October 2012

Genevieve Lyon, Actress, ca.1914
Photo: Gertrude Käsebier

Friday 12 October 2012

Portrait of a Samurai Warrior ca.1900
Photo: T Enami

Geisha Modeling as a Country Flower Girl ca.1900
Photo: T Enami

Thursday 11 October 2012

Tuesday 9 October 2012

Soutine

Chaim Soutine, Self-Portrait, 1918

The Table
Chaim Soutine, 1919

Monday 8 October 2012

A Saami Family in Norway, ca. 1900
Swiss Photographer, name unknown
Photochrom Print
(Library of Congress)

Sunday 7 October 2012

The Raven #1

  Raven
Thomas Doughty, Lithograph ca.1830

Open here I flung the shutter, when, with many a flirt and flutter,
 In there stepped a stately raven of the saintly days of yore.
 Not the least obeisance made he; not a minute stopped or stayed he;
 But, with mien of lord or lady, perched above my chamber door -
 Perched upon a bust of Pallas just above my chamber door -
 Perched, and sat, and nothing more.

The seventh stanza of  Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven

Illustration from The Raven
by Gustave Doré 1883

Edgar Allen Poe 1848
Photo: Edwin H. Manchester

Saturday 6 October 2012

Friday 5 October 2012

The Asphalt Jungle 1950

Sam Jaffe & Sterling Hayden

James Whitmore & Sterling Hayden

Louis Calhern & Marilyn Monroe

Jean Hagen