Every Picture Tells a Story
The Narrative Impulse in Modern and Contemporary Art

Selected Works

Ida Applebroog
I Am Full of Mystery and Quiet, 1975
Lacquer, ink and rhoplex on vellum
16 1/4" x 35" (41.3 x 88.9 cm)

Ida Applebroog
Two Men, 1979
Lacquer, ink and rhoplex on vellum
13 1/2" x 28 1/2" (34.3 x 72.4 cm)

Ida Applebroog
You What?, 1979
Lacquer, ink and rhoplex on five vellum panels
Each panel 9 1/2" x 5" (24.1 x 12.7 cm)

Ernst Barlach
Poor Cousin and Well-Born Gentleman II, 1919
Lithograph on cream wove paper
10 1/2" x 14" (26.7 x 35.6 cm)
Schult 129
Plate 17 from the drama The Poor Cousin
©Ernst Barlach Lizenzverwaltung Ratzeburg

Ernst Barlach
Guilty Conscience, 1919
Lithograph on cream wove paper
10 5/8" x 13 7/8" (27 x 35.2 cm)
Schult 142
Plate 29 from the drama The Poor Cousin
©Ernst Barlach Lizenzverwaltung Ratzeburg

Max Beckmann
Happy New Year, 1917
Drypoint on heavy cream laid paper
9 3/8" x 11 3/4" (23.9 x 30 cm)
Hofmaier 108/VIBb

Max Beckmann
Lovers II, 1918
Drypoint on heavy cream laid paper
8 5/8" x 10 1/8" (22 x 25.9 cm)
Hofmaier 126/IIBb

Max Beckmann
The Yawners, 1918
Drypoint on heavy cream laid paper
14 1/4" X 10" (30.8 x 25.5 cm)
Hofmaier 129/IVBb

Max Beckmann
Resurrection, 1918
Drypoint on heavy cream laid paper
9 3/8" x 13 1/8" (23.9 x 33.2 cm)
Hofmaier 132/IIBb

Max Beckmann
Madhouse, 1918
Drypoint on heavy cream laid paper
10 1/4" x 13 3/4" (26 x 30.5 cm)
Hofmaier 135/IIBb

Max Beckmann
Playing Children, Broad Format, 1918
Drypoint on heavy cream laid paper
10" x 12" (25.6 x 30.5 cm)
Hofmaier 136/IIBb

Max Beckmann
Playing Children, 1923
Drypoint on cream wove paper
12 5/8" x 9 3/4" (32 x 24.8 cm)
Hofmaier 263/Ba

Sue Coe
Bingo, 1993
Graphite, ink and gouache on Strathmore Bristol board
29 1/8" x 23 1/8" (73.9 x 58.7 cm)

Sue Coe
Bailiffs, 1993
Graphite, charcoal, ink and gouache on Strathmore Bristol board
30" x 40" (76.2 x 101.6 cm)

Sue Coe
She is a "Retard" and Will Never Tell, 1997
Graphite, gouache and watercolor on white Strathmore Bristol board
10 1/4" x 9 1/2" (26.1 x 24.2 cm)

Sue Coe
It's a Wonderful Life, 1992
Graphite, gouache and watercolor on white Strathmore Bristol board
29" x 23" (73.7 x 58.4 cm)

Lovis Corinth
Alexander and Diogenes, 1894
Etching on heavy ivory wove paper
13 5/8" x 16 1/2" (34.8 x 41.9 cm)
Schwarz 5/VI-II

Lovis Corinth
The Fall of Man, 1919
Woodcut on yellowish laid paper
9 7/8" x 9" (25 x 23.2 cm)
Schwarz 370

Gregory Crewdson
Untitled (Shed Fire), 1996
Gelatin silver print
20" x 24" (50.8 x 61 cm)

Gregory Crewdson
Untitled (Balloons in Backyard), 1997
Gelatin silver print
20" x 24" (50.8 x 61 cm)

Henry Darger
They Are Captured and Placed in a Burning House
Watercolor and pencil on manila paper
19" × 24" (43.2 × 61 cm)
KNL 124A
Watercolor and pencil drawing (Lightning Over Water), verso
©Kiyoko Lerner

Henry Darger
"At Jennie Richee, They Use Rats to Enable Them to Escape"
1940s? (verso of Three Images: "At McHollester Run…")
KNL 800 2B
©Kiyoko Lerner

James Ensor
The Entry of Christ into Brussels, 1898
Etching on heavy textured wove paper
9 3/4" x 14" (24.9 x 35.6 cm)

Eric Fischl
Study for The Bed, the Chair, Head to Foot, 2000
Oil on linen
36" x 48" (91.4 x 122 cm)
Private Collection

Eric Fischl
Untitled, 2000
Oil on linen
36" x 48" (91.4 x 122 cm)
Private Collection

George Grosz
The Scandal, 1922
Ink and red wash on cream wove paper
23 3/4" x 19 3/4" (62.8 x 50 cm)

John Heartfield
Soviet Construction and Nazi Construction, 1934
Photo-offset reproduction
14 1/2" x 10 1/2" (38 x 27.8 cm)

John Heartfield
"When Hitler Speaks of Peace, Remember This…", 1936
Photo-offset reproduction
15" x 10 5/8" (38.1 x 27 cm)

John Heartfield
Teaching of the Wolf, 1935
Photo-offset reproduction
15" x 10 5/8" (38.1 x 27 cm)

John Heartfield
O Joyful, O Blessed, Miracle-bringing Time, 1935
Photo-offset reproduction
15" x 10 5/8" (38.1 x 27 cm)

Gustav Klimt
Head of a Man, 1917-1918
Pencil on cream simile Japan paper
22" x 14 1/2" (56 x 36.8 cm)
Strobl 2876

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Dove Hunters in the Wood, 1913
Woodcut on white wove paper
17 1/8" x 14 7/8" (43.5 x 38 cm)
Dube H. 224

Oskar Kokoschka
Christ Crowned with Thorns, 1916
Lithograph on cream laid paper
10 1/4" x 12 3/4" (26 x 32.5 cm)
Wingler/Welz 79

Oskar Kokoschka
Christ on the Cross, 1916
Lithograph on laid Japan paper
10 5/8" x 12" (27 x 30.5 cm)
Wingler/Welz 80

Oskar Kokoschka
Resurrection, 1916
Lithograph on laid Japan paper
10 1/8" x 11 7/8" (25.5 x 30 cm)
Wingler/Welz 81

Käthe Kollwitz
Poverty, 1897
Lithograph on yellowish Chine colle, mounted on heavy white wove paper
6" x 6" (15.4 x 15.3 cm)
Klipstein 34/Iia; Knesebeck 33/IIIa

Käthe Kollwitz
Death, 1897
Lithograph on Chine colle, mounted on heavy white wove paper
8 3/4" x 7 1/4" (22.2 x 18.4 cm)
Klipstein 35/IIb; Knesebeck 34/Ac

Käthe Kollwitz
Arming in a Vault, 1902
Lithograph in dark brown with brown tone plate on simile Japan paper
14 1/2" x 9 1/8" (36.9 x 23.3 cm)
Klipstein 59/b; Knesebeck 65/Cb

Käthe Kollwitz
Raped, 1907
Etching on off-white laid paper
12 1/8" x 20 3/4" (30.8 x 52.8 cm)
Klipstein 97/VIa; Knesebeck 101/Vib

Alfred Kubin
An Argument, Circa 1927
Pen and ink on cream laid paper
14 1/4" x 10 3/8" (36.2 x 26.4 cm)

Alfred Kubin
Fleeing Burglar, 1927
Pen and ink on gray wove paper
13 7/8" x 12 3/8" (35.3 x 31.4 cm)

Alfred Kubin
The Card Cheat, 1931
Ink and watercolor on ivory laid paper
12 7/8" x 15 3/4" (32.7 x 40.1 cm)

Paula Modersohn-Becker
The Goose Girl, Circa 1900
Etching on heavy off-white wove paper
10 1/8" x 8 1/8" (25.1 x 20.3 cm)
Werner 7/Iib

Robyn O'Neil
Prelude to a Solid Hope for Something Better, 2003
Graphite on paper
7" x 9" (17.8 x 22.9 cm)
Courtesy Clementine Gallery

Robyn O'Neil
The Walk, Fall, Continue, & Die (#10), 2004
Graphite on paper
7" x 9" (17.8 x 22.9 cm)
Courtesy Clementine Gallery

Robyn O'Neil
Two Gathered on a Hill, 2004
Graphite on paper
30" x 40" (76.2 x 101.6 cm)
Courtesy Clementine Gallery

Hermann Max Pechstein
Give Us this Day Our Daily Bread, 1921
Hand-colored woodcut on heavy white wove paper
15 1/2" x 11 1/2" (39.8 x 29.5 cm)
Krüger H. 261/A

Hermann Max Pechstein
Lead Us Not Into Temptation, 1921
Hand-colored woodcut on heavy white wove paper heavy off-white wove paper
15 5/8" x 11 1/2" (40 x 29.5 cm)
Krüger H. 264/A

Alexis Rockman
Tasmania, 2004
Watercolor and ink on paper
38 1/4" x 28" (97.3 x 71.1 cm)