 |
| Ralston Crawford White Barn 1936 oil on canvas Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York |
 |
| Piet De Jong Caricature of artist Elektra Megaw 1932 watercolor on paper Ashmolean Museum, Oxford |
 |
| Burgoyne Diller Abstract Still Life 1935 oil on canvas Phoenix Art Museum, Arizona |
 |
| Walker Evans Frame House, Connecticut 1933 gelatin silver print Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
 |
| Marcel Duchamp Rotoreliefs 1935 set of lithographs Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York |
 |
| John Downton Portrait of Susan Saneon ca. 1938 tempera on panel Ashmolean Museum, Oxford |
 |
| Charles Demuth Groups on Beach 1934 watercolor on paper Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York |
 |
| Paul Delvaux La Rue du Tramway ca. 1938-39 oil on canvas Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh |
 |
| Hans Bellmer La Poupée ca. 1933-36 gelatin silver print Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
 |
| Jacob Epstein Delphiniums 1936 watercolor and gouache on paper Ashmolean Museum, Oxford |
 |
| André Derain Marie Harriman 1935 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
 |
| Robert Delaunay Rythme ca. 1932-37 oil on board, in frame painted by the artist Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York |
 |
| Raoul Dufy Regatta at Henley 1937 oil on linen National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
 |
| Francis Criss Astor Place 1932 oil on canvas Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
 |
| Berenice Abbott Hope Avenue #139, Staten Island, NY 1937 gelatin silver print Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York |
 |
| Stanley Cursiter Interior of the National Gallery of Scotland ca. 1938 oil on canvas Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh |
 |
| Harold Edgerton Paper Mill Worker removing Waste from Machine 1937 gelatin silver print Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
Conceits and expressions are sometimes common unto divers Authors and of different countries and ages, and that not by imitation but coincidence and concurrence of imagination upon some harmony of production. Different men have had the same dreames, and divers plants have been thought to be peculiar unto some one country, yet upon better discoverie the same have been found in distant regions and under all communitie of parts. Scaliger observes how one Italian poet fell upon the same verse with another, and that a man who had never read Martial made a verse which was to be found in him. Thus it is less strange that Homer should sometimes Hebraize and that many sentences in human Authors seem to have had their originall in Scripture. In a peece of myne published long ago* the Learned and civil Annotator hath paralleled many passages with others in Montaignes Essayes, whereas, to deal cleerely, when I penned that peece I had scarce read six leaves in that Author, and scarce so much ever since.
– Sir Thomas Browne (1605-1682)
*Religio Medici