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| Charles Demuth Stairs, Provincetown 1920 watercolor on paper Museum of Modern Art, New York |
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| Richard Diebenkorn Berkeley no. 23 1955 oil on canvas San Francisco Museum of Modern Art |
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| Pietro Dovizelli Scalinata di Spagna ca. 1855 albumen silver print from glass negative Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Philip Guston The Ladder 1978 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Helen Frankenthaler Saturn 1963 acrylic on canvas Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh |
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| Frances Benjamin Johnston Students at Work Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute, Virginia 1899-1900 platinum print Museum of Modern Art, New York |
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| Charles Whedon Rain The Quay 1948 oil on board Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York |
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| Marcantonio Raimondi after Giulio Romano Martha leading Mary to Christ ca. 1520-25 engraving Graphische Sammlung, ETH Zürich |
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| Annibale Gatti Episode from the Life of Michelangelo ca. 1861 vault painting Palazzina della Meridiana, Florence |
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| Lee Friedlander First New Hampshire Battery, Gettysburg 1974 gelatin silver print National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Richard Kauffman Gnarled Stump, Dusy Basin ca. 1961 tricolor carbro print San Francisco Museum of Modern Art |
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| Johan Hagemeyer Amaryllis 1942 gelatin silver print San Francisco Museum of Modern Art |
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| Victoria Gewirz Celestial Eclipse ca. 2001 inkjet print National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Terry Frost Grey Figure 1957 oil on board Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh |
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| Sandra Gamarra Pilgrim 2008 oil on canvas Museum of Modern Art, New York |
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| Sigmar Polke Watchtower 1984 acrylic on printed fabric Museum of Modern Art, New York |
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| Morris Louis Beth Chaf 1959 acrylic on canvas National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
Sibylla at Wolfram's Bier
Dead, is he? What's that further than a word,
Hollow as is the armour of a ghost
Whose chinks the moon he haunts doth penetrate.
Belief in death is the fell superstition
That hath appalled mankind and chained it down,
A slave unto the dismal mystery
Which old opinion dreams beneath the tombstone.
– Thomas Lovell Beddoes, Death's Jest-Book (1828)