Child in glasses and oversized overcoat sits in chair holding a "newspaper" that advertises Wintersmith's Chill Tonic. Arthur Peter & Co., Louisville, is listed as the "general agent" for the chill tonic. A post script is...
Winged woman hands young girl a doll. The woman, is apparently an angel; her clothing is white and yellow, and has golden hearts around the bust and shoulders. The girl wears a large hat. The doll is dressed in clothing the same color as the...
The Louvre portrait is of a "young boy wearing a toga praetexta (a purple-bordered toga) and bulla (ornament worn around a child's neck). […] Comparisons with coins bearing the image of Britannicus exclude the possibility that this is a...
"Polke's work frequently juxtaposes images wrenched from different periods of history. At the bottom left he makes use of a collage by the early twentieth-century Surrealist Max Ernst, whilst the central image derives from a satirical etching...
"The color red, connotative of intense passion, predominated in the two cramped spaces forming this installation. One important theme here was regressive psychological fantasy. But there was also a sense that ancient knowledge was being...
"The color red, connotative of intense passion, predominated in the two cramped spaces forming this installation. One important theme here was regressive psychological fantasy. But there was also a sense that ancient knowledge was being...
"Cornell's boxes of the 1940s and 1950s consisted of achingly melancholy juxtapositions of incongruously scaled objects implying temporal and spatial poetic leaps. A Victorian child's soap bubble set would be placed against a lunar map or a...