Monday, June 28, 2010

Modern Wing

Robert Motherwell
Reconciliation Elegy, 1978




Rachel Whiteread
Ghost, 1990


Richard Serra
Five Plates, Two Poles, 1971




Ellsworth Kelly
Color Panels for a Large Wall, 1978


Frank Stella
La scienzia della fiacca (4x), 1984


Roy Lichtenstein
Entablature, 1975


Aristide Maillol
Venus, 1918/1928



Alberto Giacometti
Walking Man II, 1960


Charles Sheeler
Classic Landscape, 1931


Arthur Dove
Moth Dance, 1929



There was also a never-before-seen oil by Francis Bacon from around 1954 called Study for a Running Dog. Experience has taught me that Bacon's paintings are virtually impossible to photograph under museum lights because of glare from the glass (he insisted they be exhibited behind glass) and glare from the big shiny frames (he insisted on those too, though the frames are usually gold and not chrome like this one). But I had to make a poor memorial for myself, just like a groupie happy to take even the crappiest photo of the band.