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| Morris Kantor Society of Independent Artists ca. 1918 linocut (exhibition poster) Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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| Morris Kantor Force 1921 oil on linen Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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| Morris Kantor Synthetic Arrangement 1922 oil on canvas Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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| Morris Kantor Reclining Nude 1927 oil on linen Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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| Morris Kantor Captain's House 1929 oil on canvas Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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| Morris Kantor Woman Reading in Bed 1930 oil on linen Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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| Morris Kantor Still Life with Dogwood 1930 oil on linen Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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| Morris Kantor Interior 1931 oil on linen Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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| Morris Kantor The Brothers 1934 oil on canvas Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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| Morris Kantor Baseball at Night 1934 oil on linen Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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| Morris Kantor Tension 1936 oil on linen Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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| Consuelo Kanaga Morris Kantor in his Studio, Cape Cod 1938 gelatin silver print Archives of American Art, Washington DC |
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| Morris Kantor Girl with Cigarette 1940 oil on linen Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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| Morris Kantor Untitled (Monhegan Series) 1944 drawing Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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| Morris Kantor Untitled (Monhegan Series) 1944 drawing Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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| Morris Kantor Seashore 1953-54 oil on canvas Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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| Morris Kantor Triptych 1963 oil on canvas Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
Chorus from Oedipus
Fate is the master of everything it is vain to fight against fate
from the beginning to the end the road is laid down human
scheming is futile worries are futile prayers are futile
sometimes a man wins sometimes he loses
who decides whether he loses or wins
it has all been decided long ago elsewhere
it is destiny
not a single man can alter it
all he can do is let it happen
the good luck the bad luck everything that happens
everything that seems to toss our days up and down
it is all there from the first moment
it is all there tangled in the knotted mesh of causes
helpless to change itself
even the great god lies there entangled
helpless in the mesh of causes
and the last day lies tangled there with the first
a man's life is a pattern on the floor like a maze
it is all fixed he wanders in the pattern
no prayer can alter it
or help him to escape it nothing
then fear can be the end of him
a man's fear of his fate is often his fate
leaping to avoid it he meets it
– Seneca (4 BC-AD 65), translated by Ted Hughes (1969)