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| Edward Weston Cauliflower 1931 gelatin silver print Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Joaquín Torres-García Construction in Red and Ochre 1931 oil on canvas Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, Texas |
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| Edward Steichen Clare Boothe Luce 1931 dye imbibition print Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Fritiof Schüldt Light and Dark (Studio Interior) 1931 oil on canvas Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
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| Carlo Sarrabezolles Figure of Liberty 1931 plaster Musée des Beaux-Arts de Reims |
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| Henry Moore Half Figure 1931 alabaster Dallas Museum of Art |
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| Lee Miller Hand 1931 gelatin silver print Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Henri Matisse Figure with Persian Robe 1931 oil on canvas Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia |
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| Clare Leighton Limbing 1931 wood-engraving Wichita Art Museum, Kansas |
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| Walt Kuhn Clown with Red Wig 1931 oil on canvas Dallas Museum of Art |
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| André Kertész Paris - rue des Ursines 1931 gelatin silver print Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Jean Gorin Composition no. 29 1931 oil on panel Kunstmuseum, The Hague |
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| Walker Evans Bed and Stove, Truro, Massachusetts 1931 gelatin silver print Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York |
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| Mabel Dwight Statue of Marie de' Medici, Luxembourg Gardens, Paris 1931 lithograph Wichita Art Museum, Kansas |
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| Dines Carlsen Studio 1931 oil on canvas Indianapolis Museum of Art |
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| Ilse Bing Bal de la Couture, Paris 1931 gelatin silver print Princeton University Art Museum |
In Due Season
Spring-time, Summer and Fall: days to behold a world
Antecedent to our knowing, where flowers think
Theirs concretely in scent-colors and beasts, the same
Age all over, pursue dumb horizontal lives
On one level of conduct and so cannot be
Secretary to man's plot to become divine.
Lodged in all is a set metronome: thus, in May
Bird-babes still in the egg click to each other Hatch!;
June-struck cuckoos go off-pitch; when obese July
Turns earth's heating up, unknotting their poisoned ropes,
Vipers move into play; warned by October's nip,
Younger leaves to the old give the releasing draught.
Winter, though, has the right tense for a look indoors
At ourselves, and with First Names to sit face-to-face,
Time for reading of thoughts, time for the trying-out
Of new metres and new recipes, proper time
To reflect on events noted in warmer months
Till, transmuted, they take part in a human tale.
There, responding to our cry for intelligence,
Nature's mask is relaxed into a mobile grin,
Stones, old shoes, come alive, born sacramental signs,
Not to us in the First Person of mysteries
They know nothing about, bearing a message from
The invisible sole Source of specific things.
– W.H. Auden (1968)