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| Anonymous Photographer Back of Man's Head ca. 1860 ambrotype Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri |
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| Susan Fenton Turned Head with Black Column 1988 gelatin silver print with added paint Philadelphia Museum of Art |
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| William Hoare Back of the Head - Antique Statue of a Goddess ca. 1760 drawing Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh |
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| Alexander Brook Portrait Head 1937 oil on canvas Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri |
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| Jean Fautrier Large Tragic Head 1942 bronze Tate Gallery |
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| Edgar Degas Head Study for Portrait of Mathilde Salle modeled 1892, cast 1919-21 bronze Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena |
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| Peter Doig Untitled 2008 oil on paper Tate Gallery |
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| Alistair Park Black Head ca. 1958 oil on board Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh |
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| Max Uhlig Head, Self Portrait 1984 drawing Saint Louis Art Museum |
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| Leon Golub Head of Man 1958 oil on canvas Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri |
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| Pavel Tchelitchew Head IV 1950 drawing (chalk on black paper) Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio |
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| Willey Reveley Faceless Bust supporting Broken Capital (series, Views in the Levant) ca. 1785 watercolor Yale Center for British Art |
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| Théodore Géricault Head of a Drowned Man ca. 1819 oil on paper, mounted on canvas Saint Louis Art Museum |
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| Stephen Conroy Fallen 2002 etching Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
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| Gary Hume Yellow Hair 1998 screenprint Tate Gallery |
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| Emerson Woelffer Head 1970 lithograph Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena |
from Clouds
Wiping my glasses and leaning westward,
clearing my mind of the day's mist and leaning
into myself to see
the colors of truth
I watch the clouds as I see them
in pomp advancing, pursuing
the fallen sun.
– Denise Levertov (1965)