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| Albert Flamen Group of Fish on the Shore before 1669 etching British Museum |
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| Anselmo Guinea Beach at Bakio 1881 oil on canvas private collection |
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| Franz Marc Woman in Wind by the Sea 1907 oil on board Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich |
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| Norman Deck On the Beach near Dunedin ca. 1909-1911 gelatin silver print Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney |
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| Vanessa Bell Studland Beach 1912 oil on canvas Tate Britain |
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| Elioth Gruner Afternoon, Bondi 1915 oil on canvas Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney |
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| Elioth Gruner Tamarama Beach 1920 oil on canvas private collection |
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| Lyonel Feininger Bathers 1933 ink and watercolor on paper Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Avery Fischer Johnson Low Tide ca. 1935-40 watercolor on paper Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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| Angelo Pinto Seashells ca. 1944 pigment on glass Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia |
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| Albert Tucker Sunbathers 1944 oil on board National Gallery of Australia, Canberra |
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| Minor White San Mateo County, California (Coast) 1947 gelatin silver print Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Nancy Kilgour Beach Umbrellas ca. 1950 oil on canvas Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney |
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| Bruce Davidson Untitled 1959 gelatin silver print Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC |
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| Arthur Tress Part IV: Lures of Love, FL 1987 C-print Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
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| Anonymous Photographer / Printmaker Dick Gephardt for President 1988 offset-lithograph (poster) National Museum of American History, Washington DC |
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| Joe Furlonger 3 Surfers 1989 lithograph National Gallery of Australia, Canberra |
from Works and Days
[The Bronze Age]
Then formd our Father Jove a third Descent;
Whose Age was brazen; clearely different
From that of Silver. All the Mortalls there,
Of wilde Ashe fashiond; stubborne and austere;
Of wilde Ashe fashiond; stubborne and austere;
Whose Mindes the harmefull facts of Mars affected;
And Petulant Injurie. All Meates rejected,
Of Naturall fruits, and Hearbs. And these were They,
That first began that Table Cruelty,
Of Naturall fruits, and Hearbs. And these were They,
That first began that Table Cruelty,
Of slaughtering Beasts; And therefore grew they fierce;
And not to be indur'd, in their Commerce.
And not to be indur'd, in their Commerce.
Their ruthlesse Mindes in Adamant were cut;
Their strengths were dismall; And their shoulders put
Inaccessible hands out, over all
Their brawny limbs, armd with a brazen wall.
Inaccessible hands out, over all
Their brawny limbs, armd with a brazen wall.
Their Houses all were brazen; All of Brasse,
Their working Instruments; for blacke Iron was
As yet unknowne: And, these (their owne lives ending;
The vast, and cold-sad house of hell-descending)
No grace had in their ends: But though they were
Never so powerfull; and enforcing feare;
The vast, and cold-sad house of hell-descending)
No grace had in their ends: But though they were
Never so powerfull; and enforcing feare;
Black Death reduc't their Greatnes in their spight,
T'a little Roome; And stopt their chearefull light.
– Hesiod (700 BC), translated by George Chapman (1618)