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| Koloman Moser Loïe Fuller in the dance, The Archangel 1902 watercolor Albertina, Vienna |
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| Léon Bakst Preliminary study for the décor of the ballet, Le Dieu bleu 1911 watercolor, gouache Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University |
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| Georges Rouault Spring 1911 watercolor Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
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| Anna Ostroumova-Lebedeva Statues of the Horse Tamers with fountain on the Quirinal Hill, Rome 1911 watercolor, gouache Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
Poem
Over the flat slope of St Eloi
A wide wall of sandbags.
Night,
In the silence desultory men
Pottering over small fires, cleaning their mess-tins:
To and fro, from the lines,
Men walk as on Piccadilly,
Making paths in the dark,
Through scattered dead horses,
Over a dead Belgian's belly.
The Germans have rockets. The English have no rockets.
Behind the lines, cannon, hidden, lying back miles.
Before the line, chaos:
My mind is a corridor. The minds about me are corridors.
Nothing suggests itself. There is nothing to do but keep on.
– by Ezra Pound, "abbreviated from the conversation of Mr. T.E.H." (Thomas Ernest Hulme (1883-1917), English philosopher and poet killed in action in World War I)
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| John Singer Sargent Portrait of Mrs William James 1921 watercolor Museum of Fine Arts, Boston |
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| Lovis Corinth Flower-vase on a table 1922 watercolor Albertina, Vienna |
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| Emil Nolde Red Clouds 1930s watercolor Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid |
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| Reginald Marsh Smoko the Human Volcano 1933 watercolor Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid |
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| Michael Rothenstein Portrait of artists Eric Ravilious and Edward Bawden 1933 watercolor National Portrait Gallery, London |
Homage to Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
Because you have gone your individual gait,
Written fine verses, made mock of the world,
Swung the grand style, not made a trade of art,
Upheld Mazzini and detested institutions;
We, who are little given to respect,
Respect you, and having no better way to show it,
Bring you this stone to be some record of it.
– on January 18, 1914, Ezra Pound traveled with William Butler Yeats, F.S. Flint, Richard Aldington, Victor Plarr, and Sturge Moore to the country home of poet and political essayist Wilfred Scawen Blunt (1840-1922). This poem was among the manuscripts presented to Blunt inside a small marble box with decorative carving by the sculptor Henri Gaudier-Brzeska.
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| Karl Schmidt-Rottluff Reflecting Clouds 1936 watercolor Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid |
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| Oscar Bluemner Oranges before 1938 watercolor Phillips Collection, Washington DC |
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| Eric Ravilious Farmhouse Bedroom 1938 watercolor Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
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| Oliver Messel Set-design for the opera, Cenerentola 1952 watercolor, gouache Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
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| Frank Auerbach Study for Primrose Hill 1974 watercolor British Museum |