I offer them a book as a magnet, a full book (either another book in the
series, or a related book if it's a non-fiction book), but you don't have to offer a full book, you can offer bonus chapters, deleted scenes; or in non-fiction: cheat sheets, case
studies, videos, anything you want as long as it's related to the book that the reader has just
finished.
Installed among a number of large, monochromatic pictures, now known as the White Paintings (1951), and a few Elemental Sculptures (ca. 1953)-- objects combining stone, wood, rusted metal, and found objects — was a selection of his Black paintings, an imposing
series of large canvases layered with newspaper and dark paint of varying
finish and consistency.1 Among the works on view was this untitled canvas, now known as Untitled [black painting with portal form](1952 — 53), which the artist is believed to have begun in early 1952.2 This painting was one of several compositions that originated at Black Mountain College near Asheville, North Carolina (fig. 2), where Rauschenberg
studied intermittently between 1948 and 1952.
• English Sporting Paintings o Henry Thomas Alken (English, 1785 - 1851), four works from the
series A Steeplechase at Market Harborough, Leicestershire, ca. 1840 - 50, oil on panel, each 10 × 14»: The First Fence; Taking a Brook; Bad Fall at a Paling Fence; and Coming up to the
Finish o Sir Edwin Landseer (English, 1802 — 1873), A Terrier on a Step, oil on canvas, 7 ⅛ × 8 ⅛» o Sir Alfred J. Munnings (English, 1878 — 1959):
Study of the Pytchley Bitch, 1928, oil on panel, 16 × 16»; Pilot, one of Freeman's Hunters, Pytchley, Brixworth, 1928, oil on board, 16 × 8 1/4» • European Paintings o Kees van Dongen (Dutch, 1877 - 1968), Haystacks, n.d., (possibly ca. 1904 - 05), oil on canvas, 19 ⅝ x 25 1/2» o Raoul Dufy (French, 1877 - 1953), L'Atelier au bouquet, 1942, oil on canvas, 25 ⅝ × 31 ⅞» o Paul Gauguin (French, 1848 - 1903), Still Life with Bowl, ca. 1889, oil on canvas, 8 x 12 ⅜» o Vincent van Gogh (Dutch, 1835 - 1890), Daisies, Arles, 1888, oil on canvas, 13 x 16 1/2» o Camille Pissarro (French, 1830 - 1903), The «Royal Palace» at the Hermitage, Pontoise, 1879, oil on canvas, 21 ⅜ x 25 ⅞» o Rene Princeteau (French, 1843 - 1914), Le Tilbury, oil on canvas, 15 ⅞ x 22 ⅛» o Georges Seurat (French, 1859 - 1891), Houses and Garden, ca. 1882, oil on canvas, 11 x 18 1/2» o Henri de Toulouse - Lautrec (French, 1864 - 1901), Norfdac, 1881, oil on panel, 9 1/4 x 5 ⅝» • European Drawings o Leon Bakst (Russian, 1866 - 1924), La Chasse, pencil and watercolor on paper, sight: 12 ⅛ x 18 ⅝» o Eugène Boudin (French, 1824 - 1898), recto: Deux Bretonnes en costume, verso: untitled graphite and watercolor sketch, 10 1/2 x 8 ⅛» o Alexandre - Gabriel Decamps (French, 1803 - 1860),
Studies of Hounds, black chalk on grey paper, 6 3/4 x 10 ⅞» o Georges Seurat, Enfant à l'echarpe, black conte crayon, sight: 6 1/2 x 4» o Henri de Toulouse - Lautrec, Le depart, pen and ink and pencil, sight: 6 x 9 3/4»