Fleeting Time Thou Has Left Me Old

Artist Ivan Albright (American, 1897–1983)

Date1945

Period20th century

MediumLithograph on paper

DimensionsObject size: 14 1/8 × 10 1/4 inches

Credit LinePurchase with funds provided by the Walter Cerf Art Fund

Object number2016.026

Curatorial DepartmentModern & Contemporary Art

_Place of OriginUnited States

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Ivan Albright

1943

Object number: 1978.009

A la porte de l’Élysée. -Messieurs, le Prince m’a chargé de vous dire qu’il n’y était pas! -Comment! est-ce qu’il ne voudrait plus suivre nos conseils! -Non, il prétend que vous l’avez assez fourré dedans comme ça….. -Malheureuse France! malheureux Prince!
[At the door of the Elysée. -Gentleman, the Prince has ordered me to say that he is not in today. -Does this mean he will not follow our advice any longer? -No, he claims you have let him down long enough… -Too bad for France! Too bad for the Prince!]
from the series Actualités, number 29, published in Le Charivari

Honoré Daumier

published November 22, 1850

Object number: 1986.047

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59. Clatsop County, Oregon. To be denied the original forest that stood here is to be orphaned, as children whose parents died in a war. In this situation we can never take comfort from the whole shape of the natural lives that bore us. John Szarkowski has written about how Eugene Atget’s photographs of old trees in France “describe the particular ways that trees articulate their forms, effloresce, bear fruit, grip the earth, claim space and light, and fail.” That testimony of completeness is destroyed by clearcutting, and with it an encouragement to wisdom and peace. From Turning Back, A Photographic Journal of Re-exploration

Robert Adams

1999–2003

Object number: 2006.026.059

60. Clatsop County, Oregon. To be denied the original forest that stood here is to be orphaned, as children whose parents died in a war. In this situation we can never take comfort from the whole shape of the natural lives that bore us. John Szarkowski has written about how Eugene Atget’s photographs of old trees in France “describe the particular ways that trees articulate their forms, effloresce, bear fruit, grip the earth, claim space and light, and fail.” That testimony of completeness is destroyed by clearcutting, and with it an encouragement to wisdom and peace. From Turning Back, A Photographic Journal of Re-exploration

Robert Adams

1999–2003

Object number: 2006.026.060

The Volga, Title Page

Ivan Bilibin

1904

Object number: 1994.001.1

The Volga, Fish

Ivan Bilibin

1903

Object number: 1994.001.2

The Volga, Ram

Ivan Bilibin

1903

Object number: 1994.001.3

51. An eroding clearcut, Pacific County, Washington. Erosion is an inevitable consequence of clearcutting. No people in history have clearcut without damaging the soil. If one turns a globe—China, India, the Near East, Europe, the eastern seaboard reminded that some degree of long-term deforestation has been the rule with clearcutting, and that this in turn has resulted in the diminishment of whole societies. Significantly, China has recently “stopped clearcutting native forests” and has “subsidized retraining of hundreds of thousands of loggers.” (The Oregonian, January 25, 2004) From Turning Back, A Photographic Journal of Re-exploration

Robert Adams

1999–2003

Object number: 2006.026.051

53. An eroding clearcut, Pacific County, Washington. Erosion is an inevitable consequence of clearcutting. No people in history have clearcut without damaging the soil. If one turns a globe—China, India, the Near East, Europe, the eastern seaboard reminded that some degree of long-term deforestation has been the rule with clearcutting, and that this in turn has resulted in the diminishment of whole societies. Significantly, China has recently “stopped clearcutting native forests” and has “subsidized retraining of hundreds of thousands of loggers.” (The Oregonian, January 25, 2004) From Turning Back, A Photographic Journal of Re-exploration

Robert Adams

1999–2003

Object number: 2006.026.053

52. An eroding clearcut, Pacific County, Washington. Erosion is an inevitable consequence of clearcutting. No people in history have clearcut without damaging the soil. If one turns a globe—China, India, the Near East, Europe, the eastern seaboard reminded that some degree of long-term deforestation has been the rule with clearcutting, and that this in turn has resulted in the diminishment of whole societies. Significantly, China has recently “stopped clearcutting native forests” and has “subsidized retraining of hundreds of thousands of loggers.” (The Oregonian, January 25, 2004) From Turning Back, A Photographic Journal of Re-exploration

Robert Adams

1999–2003

Object number: 2006.026.052

–Ah! vous êtes mon mari, ah! vous êtes le maître… eh! bien moi, j’ai le droit de vous flanquer à la porte de chez vous….. Jeanne Derouin me l’a prouvé hier soir!… allez vous expliquer avec elle!….
[You may be my husband and the master of the house, but Jeanne Derouin confirmed to me yesterday that I can throw you out any time. If you want to, go and discuss it with her!]
from the series Les Femmes Socialistes, number 7, published in Le Charivari

Honoré Daumier

published May 23, 1849

Object number: 2014.180

Louise’s 66th Birthday Party: When Louise joined, the group was known as the Womens Improvement Club. Now it's the Pleasanton Womens Club. She has been instrumental in every major project that has helped to better the community. Tri-Valley Area, Northern California from the series Our Kind of People

Bill Owens

1969-75

Object number: 2017.349