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| Frank Weston Benson Sunlight 1909 oil on canvas Indianapolis Museum of Art |
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| Léon Bonhomme Woman in Green 1909 oil on canvas Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Tennessee |
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| Pierre Bonnard Woman with a Lamp 1909 oil on canvas Dallas Museum of Art |
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| José Bueno Portrait of María Dolores Gallifa Lombarde 1909 marble Museo de Zaragoza |
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| Alvin Langdon Coburn Park Row Building, New York 1909 photogravure Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Kees van Dongen Portrait of Dolly 1909 oil on canvas Kunstmuseum, The Hague |
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| Albert Gleizes Banks of the Marne 1909 oil on canvas Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon |
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| Geertruida van Hettinga Tromp Still Life with Chinese Dolls 1909 oil on panel Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands |
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| Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Bathing Women (Moritzburg) 1909 color woodblock print Städel Museum, Frankfurt |
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| Walther Koch Hotel Eden au Lac Zürich 1909 lithograph (poster) Kunstbibliothek, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin |
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| Hermann Lismann Portrait of Maria Lismann 1909 oil on canvas Von der Heydt Museum, Wuppertal |
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| Daniel de Monfreid Studio Interior 1909 oil on canvas Musée Hyacinthe Rigaud, Perpignan |
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| Henri Rachou Gothic Virgin 1909 oil on canvas Musée des Augustins de Toulouse |
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| Johann Rudolf Rahn Stone-built Avalanche Barrier shielding a Church in the Oberwald 1909 drawing Graphische Sammlung, Zentralbibliothek Zürich |
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| József Rippl-Rónai Interior 1909 oil on board Museum of Fine Arts, Houston |
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| John Sloan Recruiting in Union Square 1909 oil on canvas Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio |
Note on Moonlight
The one moonlight, in the simple-colored night,
Like a plain poet revolving in his mind
The sameness of his various universe,
Shines on the mere objectiveness of things.
It is as if being was to be observed,
As if, among the possible purposes
Of what one sees, the purpose that comes first,
The surface, is the purpose to be seen,
The property of the moon, what it evokes.
It is to disclose the essential presence, say,
Of a mountain, expanded and elevated almost
Into a sense, an object the less; or else
To disclose in the figure waiting on the road
An object the more, an undetermined form
Between the slouchings of a gunman and a lover,
A gesture in the dark, a fear one feels
In the great vistas of night air, that takes this form,
In the arbors that are as if of Saturn-star.
So, then, this warm, wide, weatherless quietude
Is active with a power, an inherent life,
In spite of the mere objectiveness of things,
Like a cloud-cap in the corner of a looking-glass,
A change of color in the plain poet's mind,
Night and silence disturbed by an interior sound,
The one moonlight, the various universe, intended
So much just to be seen – a purpose, empty
Perhaps, absurd perhaps, but at least a purpose,
Certain and ever more fresh. Ah! Certain, for sure . . .
– Wallace Stevens (1954)