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| Fernand Léger Child with Flower 1953 glazed ceramic tiles Milwaukee Art Museum |
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| Georgia O'Keeffe Black Door with Red 1954 oil on canvas Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia |
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| Kurt Seligmann Exotic Garden ca. 1954 oil on canvas Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Leonora Carrington Dear Diary, Never Since We Left Prague 1955 oil on canvas Minneapolis Institute of Art |
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| Larry Rivers Europe I 1956 oil on canvas Minneapolis Institute of Art |
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| Larry Rivers The Studio 1956 oil on canvas Minneapolis Institute of Art |
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| Willem De Kooning Montauk Highway 1958 oil on paper, mounted on canvas Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
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| Richard Diebenkorn Woman wearing a Flower 1958 oil on canvas Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio |
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| Richard Diebenkorn Interior with a Book 1959 oil on canvas Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri |
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| Frederick Hammersley Around a Round 1959 oil on canvas Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
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| Franz Kline Zinc Yellow 1959 oil on canvas Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia |
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| Robert Motherwell Mail Figure 1959 gouache and collage on paper Phillips Collection, Washington DC |
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| Ernst Wilhelm Nay Polychrome 1959 oil on canvas Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid |
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| Joan Mitchell Untitled 1960 oil on canvas Milwaukee Art Museum |
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| Morris Louis Blue Column 1960 acrylic on canvas Phillips Collection, Washington DC |
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| Josef Albers Homage to the Square: Early Rising II 1961 oil on masonite Milwaukee Art Museum |
This with great care Byrrhena gave me in charge, but I (that alwayes coveted and desired, after that I had heard talk of such Sorceries and Witchcrafts, to be experienced in the same) little esteemed to beware of Pamphiles, but willingly determined to bestow my money in learning of that art, and now wholly to become a Witch. And so I waxed joyful, and wringing my selfe out of her company, as out of linkes or chaines, I bade her farewell, and departed toward the house of myne host Milo, by the way reasoning thus with my selfe: O Lucius now take heed, be vigilant, have a good care, for now thou hast time and place to satisfie thy desire, now shake off thy childishnesse, and shew thy selfe a man, but especially temper thy selfe from the love of thyne hostesse, and abstain from violation of the bed of Milo, but hardly attempt to winne the maiden Fotis, for she is beautifull, wanton, and pleasant in talke.
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When I was within the house I found my deare and sweet love Fotis, mincing of meat and making pottage for her master and mistresse, the Cupboard was all set with wines, and I thought I smelled the savor of some dainty meats: she had about her middle a white and clean apron, and shee was girded about her body under the paps with a swathell of red silke, and she stirred the pot and turned the meat with her faire and white hands, in such sort that with stirring and turning the same, her loynes and hips did likewise move and shake, which was in my mind a comely sight to see.
– Apuleius, The Golden Ass, translated by William Adlington (1566)
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| H. George Cohen Untitled ca. 1955 gouache on paper Art Institute of Chicago |