As syllabus days quickly pass and the semester begins to intensify, textbook pages, problem sets, and recorded lectures are piling up like snow on Locust Walk. The titles on this list of pieces at the Philadelphia Museum of Art feel just a little too apt for what we’re all going through right now.
Not Dead but Tired, Tired – George Biddle, Lithograph, 1959
The Descent of the Damned into Hell – Hendrick Goltzius, Engraving, 1578
"Come on, Sir, Get Up." – Antoine–Jean–Baptiste Thomas, Lithograph, 1828
It Is Better to Be Lazy (Mejor es holgar) – Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes, Etching and Aquatint, 1797-1798
In Full Cry – Thomas Doughty, Oil on Canvas, 1820
Praying Hermit – Johann Heinrich Tischbein II, Etching and Drypoint, 1783
Desperate Navigators – Jean Baptiste Poly, Etching and Engraving, 1770
In the Bad Lands (1904) by Edward S.Curtis/ photo courtesy of PMA
In the Bad Lands – Edward S. Curtis, Photogravure, 1904
The Slaughter of the Innocents – Ferdinand Piloty, Lithograph Printed with Tint Stone, 1817
Perspective View of a Prison – Johann Friedrich Morgenstern, Etching, 1800-1804
