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| Steuben Glass Works Ivrene Cornucopia Vase ca. 1930 glass Wichita Art Museum, Kansas |
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| Steuben Glass Works Green Jade and Alabaster Vase ca. 1925 glass Wichita Art Museum, Kansas |
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| Steuben Glass Works Aurene Vase ca. 1905 glass Wichita Art Museum, Kansas |
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| Steuben Glass Works Candlesticks ca. 1920-25 glass Wichita Art Museum, Kansas |
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| Frans Hals Portrait of a Man ca. 1655-60 oil on canvas Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen |
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| Frans Hals Portrait of Vincent Laurensz van der Vinne ca. 1655-60 oil on canvas Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto |
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| Frans Hals Portrait of Isaac Massa 1626 oil on canvas Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto |
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| Frans Hals Portrait of a Man ca. 1618-20 oil on canvas Museumslandschaft Hessen Kassel |
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| Max Ernst Long Live Fashion, Down with Art Plate 1 1919 lithograph Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Max Ernst Long Live Fashion, Down with Art Plate 2 1919 lithograph Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Max Ernst Long Live Fashion, Down with Art Plate 3 1919 lithograph Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Max Ernst Long Live Fashion, Down with Art Plate 4 1919 lithograph Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Emo Verkerk Aby Warburg in 1923 2017 oil on canvas Kunstmuseum, The Hague |
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| Emo Verkerk Double Portrait of Michel Foucault and Adriaan van Ravesteijn 2008 oil on panel Kunstmuseum, The Hague |
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| Emo Verkerk Van Gogh ca. 1990 oil on canvas Kunstmuseum, The Hague |
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| Emo Verkerk Venedikt Yerofeyev (Russian Writer under the Enlarger) 2013 oil on canvas Kunstmuseum, The Hague |
from Part Three of The Age of Anxiety
Now they see before them, standing, half hidden by trees, on a little insurrection of red sandstone above a coiling river, the big house which marks the end of their journey's fourth stage. Rosetta is enthusiastic and runs forward saying:
In a shall go, out I shall look.
But the others are tired and Malin says:
Very well, we will wait, watch from outside.
Quant says:
A scholarly old scoundrel,
Whose fortune was founded on the follies of others,
Built it for his young bride.
She died in childbed, he died on the gallows;
The property passed to the Crown.
The façade has a lifeless look,
For no one uses the enormous ballroom;
But in book-lined rooms at the back
Committees meet, and many strange
Decisions are secretly taken.
High up in the East Tower,
A pale-faced widow looks pensively down
At the terrace outside where the snow
Flutters and flurries round the formal heads
Of statues that stare at the park.
And the guards at the front gate
Change with the seasons; in cheerful Spring
How engaging their glances; but how
Morose in Fall: ruined kitchen-maids
Blubber behind the bushes.
– W.H. Auden (1944-46)