Les Porteuses d'eau (Égyptiennes)/The Water Bearers (Egyptian), 1896 Emile Bernard (French, 1869-1941) Oil on canvas Kasser Mochary Collection, "The Figure Examined", at Tucson Museum of Art Hélas elle glisse entre les doigts/Alas She Slips Away, c. 1950 Jean Cocteau (French, b. Jean Maurice Eugène Cément Cocteau, 1889-1963) Ink wash on parchment Kasser Mochary Collection, "The Figure Examined", at Tucson Museum of Art     Before the photo salvage, much reflections and distortions... Tropical Bird, 1948 William Baziotes (American, 1912-1963) Oil on canvas Gift of the Heller Foundation, Washington D.C. in memory of Lawrence J. Heller, TMA #1976.303

"A Pittsburgh-born artist, William Baziotes is one of America's most highly regarded Surrealists who experimented with a technique that taps into the unconscious known as automatism. Moving to New York in 1933, Baziotes becames involved with the Federal Arts Project's (FAP) easel division from 1938-1941. Taking a slow, deliberate approach to painting, Baziotes produced only one or two paintings a year, explaining that his work "has its own way of evolving." Baziotes focused on biomorphic forms that he created by building up his surfaces with thin layers of oil paint. In Tropica Bird, Baziotes alters the traditional anatomy of a bird by manipulating it into a bimolecular form. The figures of a bird and a human are readable in the composition, but are reduced to their most simple shapes." (From info card)