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| Tomma Abts Untitled (Big Circle) 2015 aquatint National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Herb Aach No. 9 1973-74 gouache on paper Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York |
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| Francesco Botticini Three Archangels (Michael, Raphael, Gabriel) with Tobias 1470 oil on panel Gallerie degli Uffizi, Florence |
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| Giuseppe Bezzuoli St Michael Archangel 1844 oil on canvas private collection |
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| Tauba Auerbach Organize I Poster 2017 laser print and rubber stamp on paper San Francisco Museum of Modern Art |
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| Tauba Auerbach Persevere I Poster 2017 laser print and rubber stamp on paper San Francisco Museum of Modern Art |
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| Giuseppe Abbati Cloister before 1868 oil on canvas Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Florence |
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| Manuel Álvarez Bravo Untitled ca. 1960 C-print Museum of Modern Art, New York |
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| Anni Albers Preliminary Design for Wall Hanging 1926 gouache and graphite on paper Museum of Modern Art, New York |
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| Otl Aicher Realistische Weltliteratur der Gegenwart ca. 1949 photolithograph (poster) Museum of Modern Art, New York |
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| Dennis Ashbaugh Agit Prop Tram #2 1974 oil on paper Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York |
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| Anne Appleby Coyote Meadow 1999 oil paint and wax on three canvases Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York |
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| Trophime Bigot Memento Mori ca. 1630 oil on canvas Palazzo Barberini, Rome |
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| Luis Cruz Azaceta Deadly Rain 1983 acrylic on canvas Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin |
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| Alice Attie Untitled 2001 digital print Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York |
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| Anna Held Audette Scrap Metal XVII 1997 oil on canvas Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut |
from Journal of an Airman
There are some birds in these valleys
Who flutter round the careless
With intimate appeal,
By seeming kindness trained to snaring,
They feel no falseness.
Under the spell completely
They circle can serenely,
And in the tricky light
The masked hill has a purer greenness.
Their flight looks fleeter.
But fowlers, O, like foxes,
Lie ambushed in the rushes.
Along the harmless tracks
The madman keeper crawls through brushwood,
Axe under oxter.
Alas, the signal given,
Fingers on trigger tighten.
The real unlucky dove
Must smarting fall away from brightness,
Its love from living.
– W.H. Auden, The Orators (1931)