Sunday, October 31, 2010


Cray, ca. 1883-84
William Morris

Friday, October 29, 2010


Back of a Woman, ca. 1857
Shepard Alonzo Mount

Saturday, October 16, 2010


Vera Karalli


The Dying Swan (1917)
Yevgeni Bauer

Monday, October 11, 2010


Jupes
René Maltête

Saturday, October 9, 2010

Over the snowdrift's hard crust
Into your white, mysterious house,

We walked in tender silence,

Both hushed.
And sweeter to me than all songs sung

Is this dream fulfilled,

The gentle clinking of your spurs

And the swaying of branches we've brushed.


January 1917

Anna Akhmatova

Wednesday, October 6, 2010


Untitled (Fashion, Paris), 1933
Ilse Bing

At the Milliners, 1882
Edgar Degas