—Mabel Normand (1892 – 1930)
Untitled 1987 Acrylic, oil and graphite on paper 11 1:16 by 13 7:8 in.
Screenplay by Orson Welles
Based on “Badge of Evil” 1956 novel by Whit Masterson
oil on canvas
30-3/8 x 40-5/16 x 1-1/2 in. unframed
Collection Walker Art Center
Gift of the T. B. Walker Foundation, Gilbert M. Walker Fund, 1951
—Melvyn Douglas
Manny Farber was one of our greatest film critics. His collection of film writings, Negative Space, is a must read. He was also a wonderful painter.
Pathway, Sceaux, France, 1998, from the book ‘France’
Untitled, 1971
Dimensions unframed 108 × 144.125 × 1.75 inches
Materials acrylic on oil-sized cotton
Walker Art Center
“My aim was to show Carole’s hallucinations through the eye of the camera, augmenting their impact by using wide-angle lenses of progressively increasing scope. But in itself, that wasn’t sufficient for my purpose. I also wanted to alter the actual dimensions of the apartment — to expand the rooms and passages and push back the walls so that audiences could experience the full effect of Carole’s distorted vision.
Accordingly we designed the walls of the set so they could be moved outward and elongated by the insertion of extra panels. When ‘stretched’ in this way, for example, the narrow passage leading to the bathroom assumed nightmarish proportions.”
-Roman Polanski, (1984)
Untitled (Tilly Losch), c. 1935 – 38
Box construction
10 x 9 1/4 x 2 1/8 inches (25.4 x 23.5 x 5.4 cm)
The Robert Lehrman Art Trust, Courtesy of Aimee and Robert Lehrman, Washington, DC
Photograph by Mark Gulezian/QuickSilver, Washington, DC
© The Joseph and Robert Cornell Memorial Foundation/Licensed by VAGA, New York, New York
Young Woman, 1510
“Fight with Us for Peace and Equal Rights”
This slogan perfectly fits the Democrat party whose obsession with equality is, in essence, the road to fascism. I expanded on this idea here.
by Bernard Bernstein, United States
1980
Rosewood
Accession #: 1992.036
The Mina Avrech Collection, Yeshiva University Museum, Gift of Robert & Karen Avrech. Karen and I endowed a permanent collection of fine Judaica to the Yeshiva University Museum in memory of my beloved mother.
Why should it be so, that the painting by Jay DeFeo makes me think that I’m looking at a box full of crumpled tissue paper and could reach in and take some out, while the one by Robert Motherwell just looks like the wall after the pictures have been removed?
Give me representational, or better yet, trompe l’oeil, any day.
Nice group of parasol pictures. That last one is so obviously Irish!
Pathway–very cool.
And you could certainly put together a lovely catalog of Judaica!
Today I was reading Peter Bogdanovich’s chapter on Marlene Dietrich. She told him that Hitler wanted to sleep with her and maybe she should have. Maybe it would have changed his view on life.
I think had be been accepted to the Viennese art school the world would have been better off 😉
Dietrich to me was one of the more interesting classic Hollywood stars. I read somewhere that into the 60s when she would go to Germany Germans, who considered her a traitor, treated her with disdain.
Lady Jane Grey: That was a real Game of Thrones. And while I haven’t studied the history in great depth, my superficial impression is that the wrong house won.
Kudos, Robert…. again.
– I love the display of the Black Narcissus comparison. I am always fascinated how the artists work their magic.
– Dürer’s Six Pillows: I am terribly envious of people who can draw like this.
– Goya — superb colors
– The Execution of Lady Jane Grey — awesome painting.
…and, of course, your granddaughter!