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| Roy Lichtenstein Grrrrrrrrr!! 1965 oil on canvas Guggenheim Museum, New York |
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| Walton Ford It Makes Me Think Of That Awful Day On The Island 2011 lithograph Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
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| Katherine Schmidt Tiger Tiger 1938 oil on canvas Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
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| Jacob Gole after Cornelis Dusart Allegorical Image – Louis XIV as Scourge of Heretics 1691 engraving Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Natalia Goncharova A Game in Hell: A Poem by Velimir Khlebnikov and Aleksei Kruchenykh 1912 lithograph (book cover) Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Theodore Roszak Thistle in the Dream 1955-56 steel Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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| Adolphe Braun Mask of Medusa 1862 albumen print Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Jean Dubuffet Volonté de Puissance 1946 oil paint, pebbles, sand, glass and rope on canvas Guggenheim Museum, New York |
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| Anonymous Photographer Mickey Walker 1932 gelatin silver print Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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| Carl Mager Wrestler - The Siberian Bearcat ca. 1925 oil on canvas Portland Museum of Art, Maine |
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| Mitchell Siporin Performers ca. 1939 engraving Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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| Sylvia Sleigh The Bride with Petunias 1950 oil on canvas Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
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| Timothy Greenfield-Sanders Elaine de Kooning 1980 gelatin silver print Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
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| Annie Leibovitz Rolling Stones ca. 1985 C-print Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
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| Thomas Struth The Ghez Family, Chicago 1990 C-print Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Edward Steichen Marlene Dietrich 1931 gelatin silver print Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
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| Harry Sternberg Picasso ca. 1943 screenprint Walker Art Center, Minneapolis |
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| Harald Vike Self Portrait ca. 1957 oil on canvas National Gallery of Australia, Canberra |
Portrait
A youth last seen by an undecipherable
Artist. Or not a painting at all. A young man
With his comic hat on, waiting in the middle
Of many things for his painter to come and make
Most of them plausible.
One arm perhaps on the sideboard where would be shown
A lute, cold meats, a snifter somewhat full
Like a crystal ball predicting what's unknown;
Ingot of nougat, thumb-sized kumquats sodden
With juice not quite their own.
The other arm akimbo; eyes askance
Follow the crook of his elbow pointing out
The window, where might be a bird, for instance,
A blue tree, or a woman picking her way
Through what he sees as distance.
– James Merrill (1951)