Lights in the Night

… the Stars
That nature hung in Heav’n, and fill’d their Lamps
With everlasting oil, to give due light
To the misled and lonely Travailer.

Arthur Rackham

I am starting this year with a new collection - similar to the series Things with Wings - called
Lights in the Night.  Art from different times and cultures about the pleasures of exploring the
sky with its heavenly bodies as well as the urge to illuminate the dark hours between dusk
and dawn with fire and light.






James McNeill Whistler, Nocturne in Black and Gold The Falling Rocket, 1874



Jean-François Millet, Starry night, 1851



Matthew Cusick, Leviathan, 2008 (Maps, illustrated bible, ink, on panel)



Tomomi Miyano, Night Fishing, 2005



Fumiaki Fukita. Exploding Star, 1966



Leonid Meteor Storm over Niagara Falls, 1833



James Glaisher, Travels in the Air, 1871



Oswald Achenbach, Fireworks in Naples



Edward Middleton Manigault, The Rocket, 1909



Lucien Lévy-Dhurmer, Feu d’artifice a Venise, 1917



Takahashi Hiroaki (Shôtei), Fireworks Shubinomatsu (Okawa Shubinomatsu),
(literally “Pine Tree at Okawa River”), Early 1930’s



Jun Kumaori, Amayadori



John Salminen, Morning Fog



John Singer Sargent, Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose, ca. 1885-86



John Singer Sargent, Sketch for "Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose" (see above)



Mian Situ, Preparing For Festival



Thorolf Holmboe, Still Life, 1907



Takahashi Hiroaki (Shôtei), Street Singers (Ukiyobushi)



Warwick Goble, Illustration from The Star Lovers



Charles Folkard, Robin Goodfellow



Kiyochika, May Night at Kudanzaka



Edward Hopper, Blue Night, 1914



Ferdinand du Puigaudeau, Breton Girls with Chinese Lanterns, 1896



Maxfield Parrish, The Lantern Bearers, 1910



Illustration by Arthur Rackham for Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens
Written by J.M. Barrie. First published in 1906



Maurice Prendergast, Festa del Redentore, ca.1899



Ramón Casas, Atelier Interior after a party, 1883