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| Washington Allston Prometheus before 1843 drawing British Museum |
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| Anonymous Photographer House Painter ca. 1870-90 tintype Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| John La Farge Warrior with Banner 1877-78 watercolor (study for stained-glass window) Indianapolis Museum of Art |
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| Elihu Vedder Japanese Still Life 1879 oil on canvas Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
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| Kenyon Cox The Blessing of Sleep 1899 drawing (poster design for Paine's Celery Compound) Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum |
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| Susan Watkins The 1830 Girl (Miss M.P. in Louis-Philippe costume) 1900 oil on canvas Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia |
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| Tiffany & Co. Angel of the Resurrection 1903-1904 stained-glass window (designed by Frederick Wilson) Indianapolis Museum of Art |
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| William Wendt The Mantle of Spring 1917 oil on canvas Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
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| George Luks Czechoslovakian Army entering Vladivostok, Siberia 1918 oil on canvas Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
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| Marsden Hartley Pink and White Flowers in a Vase ca. 1929 oil on canvas Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
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| Lyonel Feininger Blue Skyscrapers 1937 drawing, with watercolor Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena |
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| Arshile Gorky Good Hope Road II 1945 oil on canvas Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid |
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| Willem De Kooning Asheville 1948 oil and enamel on cardboard Phillips Collection, Washington DC |
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| Nancy Hellebrand Photographer (Bill Brandt) 1973 gelatin silver print Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio |
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| Peter Hujar Cindy Lubar as Queen Victoria 1973 gelatin silver print Princeton University Art Museum |
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| Alex Katz Boy with Branch I 1975 color aquatint Princeton University Art Museum |
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| Keith A. Smith Untitled 1980 gelatin silver print with pencil additions Princeton University Art Museum |
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| Roy Lichtenstein View from the Window 1985 lithograph, woodcut, screenprint Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
American Cowslip
Nothing is
the way you think it is
going to be.
Take this little flower
from me, and let it go
into the way you think of it.
And so it grows
and is the face
of Daisy the cow speaking,
she my young grandma
growing and wearing
a pink slip and who fell
from the sky that was
clear blue and pure
all over the place
you called home
as it moved out
from under you
in the slow
rotation of the sphere
you call a star,
a flower, a mind.
– Ron Padgett (1989)