Studio Party

Studio Party, or Soiree, by Florine Stettheimer, (Oil on canvas, 32 x 33.5 inches)

The figures in this painting of a gathering at American artist Florine Stettheimer’s studio would have been recognizable to many friends and visitors to her home; Stettheimer biographer Barbara J. Bloemink identifies the guests at the party and the other images in the room as follows: “At the top left, Ettie [Stettheimer,] Isabell Lachaise, and Maurice Stern gather below a copy of Florine’s Family Portrait No. 1, in which the figure of [her mother] Rosetta and a portion of the central bouquet are visible. On the lower left, Gaston Lachaise and Albert Gleizes, both artists, stand facing a canvas visible to the viewer only from its back. Avery Hopwood and Leo Stein sit in the center area; behind them is the Hindu poet Sankar sitting directly before Stettheimer’s nude self-portrait on a large easel. At the right Mme Gleizes, Florine, and a partial figure wearing a Harlequin costume rest on a red and white couch.” (Barbara J. Bloemink, The Life and Art of Florine Stettheimer, New Haven: Yale University Press,1995, p. 96).

Parasol

Grace Nail Johnson (Mrs. James Weldon Johnson), bridal photo in Panama 1910. (JWJ MSS 49)

Geographic Sing-Along

Sample pages from an 1848 book for children intended to teach physical and political geography by way of rhymes set to popular tunes – jingoism notwithstanding.

Lyon, Sarah M. 1848. The musical geography: a new natural arrangement of the names of all the physical features of the globe. Troy [N.Y.]: Young & Hart.

A House of Dust

A House of Dust, a poetry project created by Alison Knowles and James Tenney
in 1967, an early example of a computer generated poem,
creating stanzas by working through iterations of lines with
changing words from a finite vocabulary list.

Girl in Window

“Girl in Window,” by David Plowden, August, 1975 (1992 February print date) (WA Plowden)

Ole!

Postcard from Ernest Hemingway to Gertrude Stein, featuring an image of a bullfighter, [June 9, 1924].

http://beinecke.library.yale.edu/dl_crosscollex/brbldl_getrec.asp?fld=img&id=1213731

The Boxer, from above and below

A wooden sculpture “The Boxer Wild Cat”, by Leslie Garland Bolling, ca. 1930.