ENVOI – For Phillip Roth
2010
22×24
Oil on linen
Painting Notes:
1. Elmer Batters, untitled, undated. Other references are not always documented
2. Caravaggio – Doubting Thomas, 1602-3
3. Elmer Batters
4. Elmer Batters
5. Alfred Dreyfus
6. Vase – Boston Museum of Fine Arts. Boit family bequest
7. John Singer Sargent – Mrs. Edward Darley Boit
8. Elmer Batters
9. Bess Myerson, Miss America 1945
10. Many Ray – Marcel Proust on his Deathbed, 1922
11. Alfred Dreyfus
12. Tomoko Takahashi – title not recorded; photo – drawing admired in the Seattle Asian Museum.
13. Jan Saudek – The Belly of the Night, 1988
14. Will Elder – Early prototype of Little Annie Fanny, 1961
15. Adolphe-William Bouguereau – Child at Bath, 1886
16. Adolphe-William Bouguereau – Child at Bath, 1886
17. Bill ‘n Monica
18. James Rosenquist – World’s Fair Mural, 1963-4
19. Le Motif, with diamonds
20. Jan Saudek – No Please Don’t, 1997
21. Peter Blake – Love Wall, 1961
22. Will Elder – untitled
23. Arthur Hacker – The Cloud, 1901
24. Elmer Batters; Annie Swynnerton – Cupid and Psyche, 1891; Jan van Eyck – Madonna at the Fountain, 1439
25. Adolphe-William Bouguereau – Le Printemps, 1886
26. Adolphe-William Bouguereau – Nymphs and Satyr, 1873
27. Peter Blake – Siriol, She Devil of Naked Madness, 1957
28. Tomoko Takahashi – title not recorded; photo – drawing admired in the Seattle Asian Museum.
“Tools are important,” Mr. Boulez repeated. “Mallarmé chastised Degas for writing poems. He said, ‘You can’t just have an idea that you want to write poems. Poems are made out of words.’ ”