Art

Monday's image: March 14, 2016

James Castle, Gray Door, Mixed media on cardboard, 11 1/2 x 7 1/4 inches, date unknown, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

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Monday's image: March 7, 2016

Felix Gonzalez-Torres, "Untitled" (Perfect Lovers), Clocks, paint on wall, 14 x 28 x 2 3/4 inches, 1991, Museum of Modern Art, New York

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Monday's image: February 29, 2016

Richard Halls, Federal Dance Theatre presents Salut au monde adapted from a poem of that name by Walt Whitman, Color silkscreen, Published by Federal Art Project, New York City, 1936 or 1937,  Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

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Monday's image: February 22, 2016

Alberto Burri, Composizione (Composition), Burlap, thread, synthetic polymer paint, gold leaf, and PVA on black fabric, 86 x 100.4 cm, 1953, Guggenheim Museum, New York

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Monday's image: February 15, 2016

Walker Evans, Men Seated on Steps of Public Building, Southeastern U.S., Film negative, 35 mm, 1934-35, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

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Monday's image: February 1, 2016

Corita Kent, N, from the series Signal Code Alphabet, Screenprint, 17 5/8 x 23 1/16 inches, 1968, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California

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Monday's image: January 25, 2016

Dorothea Rockburne, Drawing Which Makes Itself: Neighbourhood, Transparentized paper, pencil, colored pencil, and felt-tip pen on wall, 107 x 150 inches, 1973, Museum of Modern Art, New York

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Monday's image: January 18, 2016

Laura Belém, Ao encontro de... (Meeting with...), video installation, single-channel video, color, with sound, 8:37 minutes, dimensions variable, 2003-2004, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California. (Note: Full video can be viewed via the artist's website, hyperlinked above.)
 

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Monday's image: January 11, 2016

Lakota artist, Bag, leather, glass beads, porcupine quills, cloth, and metal beads, 10 3/4 x 6 inches, ca. 1910, Portland Art Museum, Oregon

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Monday's image: January 4, 2016

Dieter Roth, Lion Cage (Löwenkäfig), Intaglio printing (etching and halftone block), photomechanical reproduction of a drawing and a picture postcard, 23 13/16 × 19 7/8 inches, 1971, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

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Monday's image: December 28, 2015

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, The Girl Saku Rescuing a Baby from the River, Color woodblock print, 13 5/8 x 9 3/16 inches, Japan, 1875, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California

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Monday's image: December 14, 2015

Elza Sunderland, Unfinished Textile Design from 'Birds of a Feather' Series; Red, Black and White Colorway, Gouache on paper, 11 x 9 inches, 1941, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California

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Monday's image: November 30, 2015

Rosalind Solomon, ERA March, Washington, DC (women in hard hats), Gelatin silver print, image: 14 15/16 x 14 13/16 inches, 1979, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, Massachusetts  

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Monday's image: November 9, 2015

Gordon Ward Gahan, Reservoir Shrinks as Drought Continues: New York, Gelatin silver print, image: 9 7/16 x 7 5/8 inches, 1965, United Press International, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, Massachusetts

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Monday's image: November 2, 2015

George Benjamin Luks, Pedro, Oil on canvas, 52 3/8 x 44 3/8 inches, early 1920s, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA

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Monday's image: October 26, 2015

Judy Pfaff, Rock / Paper / Scissors, Mixed media installation, 16 x 30 x 30 feet, 1982, Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, NY

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