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| Georges Braque Large Interior with Palette 1942 oil on canvas Menil Collection, Houston |
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| Paul Lewis Clemens Mr. & Mrs. Clark 1942 oil on canvas Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts |
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| Joseph Cornell Untitled (Pink Ballet Case) 1942 wood, glass and found objects Walker Art Center, Minneapolis |
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| Arthur Dove The Brothers 1942 tempera and wax emulsion on canvas McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas |
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| Ed Garman No. 265 1942 oil on panel North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh |
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| Robert Gwathmey The Farmer wanted a Boy 1942 oil on canvas Art Institute of Chicago |
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| John Heliker Bathers 1942 drawing McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas |
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| Fernand Léger The Divers 1942 oil on canvas Dallas Museum of Art |
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| André Masson La Belle Italienne 1942 pastel on paper, mounted on canvas Art Institute of Chicago |
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| André Masson Minotaur 1942 pastel on paper Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Barbara Morgan Dancer Erick Hawkins jumping with Lloyd 1942 gelatin silver print North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh |
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| Robert Motherwell Yellow Abstract Composition 1942 watercolor and ink on paper Dallas Museum of Art |
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| Arnold Newman Max Ernst 1942 gelatin silver print Fralin Museum of Art, Charlottesville, Virginia |
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| Angelo Pinto David and Goliath 1942 pigment on glass Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia |
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| Hobson Pittman House in the Country 1942 oil on canvas North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh |
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| Raphael Soyer At the Mirror 1942 lithograph Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Tennessee |
from Reflections in a Forest
Within a shadowland of trees
Whose lives are so uprightly led
In nude august communities,
To move about seems underbred
And common any taste for words;
When, thoughtlessly, they took to song,
In nude august communities,
To move about seems underbred
And common any taste for words;
When, thoughtlessly, they took to song,
Whatever one may think of birds,
The example that they set was wrong.
In keeping still, in staying slow,
For posture and for social ease,
How much these living statues owe
Their scent-and-color languages.
For who can quarrel without terms
For Not or Never, who can raise
Objections when what one affirms
Is necessarily the case?
Is necessarily the case?
– W.H. Auden (1957)