Tuesday, October 28, 2008

The Temple of Dendur

Sketch from a visit to the Metropolitan in September.
(You really have to click on the image to see it well.)





And a headdress copied from a textbook on Egyptian art.

Saturday, October 25, 2008

Assemble-a-Story : Excerpts













found postcard



found between the pages of Clea (Lawrence Durrell) in a used bookstore

the cathedral in Milan



On the roof, looking south.

a very old musical instrument



Blind contour drawing of a violoncello, ca. 1650.
In a museum in Florence, whose name I've forgotten.

Thursday, October 23, 2008

Tate Modern, fall 2007







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MoMA, spring 2008






















I'd never seen this piece by Wilhelm Lehmbruck before, and found it very compelling.






















No matter how many times I see Giacometti, I never get tired of him.






















Olafur Eliasson's exhibit was called "Take your time"; here is our view of a fan whirling freeling in the atrium, which we watched from a leisurely view on the couches.

Visiting the Berkshires





City of Peace : a Shaker village in Hancock, Massachusetts.

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Monday, October 06, 2008

Illustration Friday : Sugary




The Victor Immanuel II monument, in Rome, is a tiered and sugar-coated cake.

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The Morgan Library, last spring

A show of Irving Penn portraits.









Irving Penn was one of the very first artists who I fell in love with, circa fifth grade. He came in the same wave (to me) as Imogen Cunningham, Alfred Stieglitz, and Edward Steichen.



And here is one-forth of a page of the Ramsey Psalter Fragment, ca1300-1310, London.