Catherine S. Cox
Professor of English
University of Pittsburgh, Johnstown
http://www.pitt.edu/~cscox
 

 

 

Favorite Art
Here are some of my favorite works of art, included here
because I like them and think other people might too...


Cindy Sherman, Untitled Film Still #48 
(gelatin silver print, 1979); MoMA
Umberto Boccioni, Unique Forms of Continuity 
in Space (bronze, 1913); MoMA
Marc Chagall, I and the Village 
(oil on canvas, 1911); MoMA 
 

 
 
Alberto Giacometti, City Square (bronze, 1948); MoMA

 
Ben Shahn, Miners' Wives (egg tempera on 
panel, 1948); Philadelphia Museum of Art
 

 
Giorgio de Chirico, Melancholy and Mystery of a Street (oil on canvas, 1914); private owner 

 
George Segal, Three People on Four Benches (plaster and wood, 1978); Princeton University 
 
 
Emile Nolde, Dance Around the Golden Calf  (oil on canvas, 1910); Staatsgalerie Moderner Kunst, Munich

 
Jan van Eyck, Arnolfini Portrait 
(oil on panel, 1434); National Gallery, London

See more at MoMA and the Philadelphia Museum of Art



Updated 12.21.02