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| Jean-Honoré Fragonard Minerva ca. 1772 oil on canvas Detroit Institute of Arts |
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| Willem van Mieris Diana, Goddess of the Hunt 1686 oil on panel Leiden Collection, New York |
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| Alexander Roslin Portrait of a Lady 1780 oil on canvas Sinebrychoff Art Museum, Helsinki |
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| Fritz Rumpf South African Ostrich Feather Manufactory 1914 lithograph (poster) Kunstbibliothek, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin |
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| Gustave van de Woestijne Two Springs 1910 oil on canvas Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp |
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| Frederic Leighton Portrait of May Sartoris ca. 1860 oil on canvas Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas |
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| Johann Spilberg the Younger Jael 1644 oil on canvas Gemäldegalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin |
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| Nicolò dell'Abate Man with Parrot ca. 1535-40 oil on canvas Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Hans Rudolf Manuel Deutsch Two Landsknechts ca. 1550 drawing Kupferstichkabinett, Kunstmuseum Basel |
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| Gérard de Lairesse Odysseus and Calypso ca. 1680 oil on canvas Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Anselm Feuerbach Nanna ca. 1861 oil on canvas Neue Pinakothek, Munich |
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| Cornelis de Vos Portrait of a Girl ca. 1633-35 oil on canvas Rhode Island School of Design, Providence |
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| Aubin Vouet David with the Head of Goliath ca. 1630 oil on canvas Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux |
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| workshop of Guido Reni David with the Head of Goliath ca. 1635 oil on canvas (copy of autograph original at the Louvre) Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden |
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| Daniel Mytens Portrait of Charles I, King of England 1633 oil on canvas Saint Louis Art Museum |
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| Jan Thomas Equestrian Portrait of Gundakar, Prince of Dietrichstein 1667 oil on canvas Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
from An Idea of Iowa
Who in their bleakest hour has not considered Iowa?
We live in a place where everything leans in
as if to confide in us, and learn, too late, it is a trick:
the frieze, the whole entablature must topple,
as the drunk on the bus, in the course of his life story,
anoints us with cidery spittle, as the ash
anoints us with cidery spittle, as the ash
from a thousand fag-end sunsets settles on us.
But Iowa. A darkening indigo shimmer above tracts of corn,
yellow as far as the eye can see, yellow as the sun
in a child's first drawing.
– Caitríona O'Reilly, Geis (2015)