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legrandcirque

Two women lighting each others’ cigarettes, Westeinde, The Netherlands, 1932.

Source: Nationaal Archief

magictransistor

Frida Kahlo. El Verdadero Vacilón (The True Vacillator). 1946-47.

amuseoffyre

One of my favourite photos from my trip to Warsaw in 2006

warmfigure

work week is over! time for pound cake!! with super soft whipped cream and market strawberries!!!!

luthienne

“I beg you to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don’t search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.”

— Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters To A Young Poet (via fables-of-the-reconstruction)

videomontage

some people have therapy all i have is jack kerouac’s june 10 1949 letter to allen ginsberg

videomontage

abt to smoke some deer meat pack it in my saddlebag and go away over the bluff for real

javier-sanz-proyectos

wolfgang tillmans

hexjulia

look at the cute cow angel i saw when i tried to link to the correct page of that manuscript.

(the Apocalypse of Saint-Sever, (Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, MS lat. 8878)

dailyrothko

Mark Rothko The Drawings of 1962 Wove paper. all approx. 11 1/16 x 8 9/16 in. (28.1 x 21.7 cm) Mixed media (Pencil, Ink, Watercolor and Wash) All Gifts of The Mark Rothko Foundation, Inc., © Kate Rothko Prizel and Christopher Rothko

We don't see many late drawings from Rothko, there's one in '56 and some that are studies for mural projects, but for some reason, in 1962 we have this nice group of works on paper. What the intention of then was, no one knows for sure.

In 1962 Rothko was working on the Harvard Murals, but these drawings don't really resemble that work and only the 3rd drawing, in pencil. seems more like it might have been a sketch.

But it's still a little funny. The Seagram and Harvard mural sketches are cementing shapes that Rothko wasn't known the use. After all the stacked rectangle forms Rothko had painted by 1962, why sketch a single one out in pencil?

In seems likely to me that at least the 4 of them, in ink, were meant to stand alone, but we will probably never know.

I'm presenting them here as a set even though they are all up on the blog individually. For one thing it's nice to look at then this way, and for another these are recent scans from the NGA, which are different in small ways than what's already up. The previous scans are professional vetted scans but these new ones were probably done all at the same time and we sometimes see less yellow in the paper than we've seen before.

Enjoy these.