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| Willem De Kooning Untitled VI 1977 oil on canvas Menil Collection, Houston |
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| César Domela Relief no. 167 1977 assemblage of painted wood, aluminum, plexiglas and brass Kunstmuseum, The Hague |
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| Rein Draijer Takkenbos 1977 oil on canvas Kunstmuseum, The Hague |
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| Mary Elizabeth Ernst Untitled 1977 gelatin silver print Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Larry Fink Studio 54 1977 gelatin silver print Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Nicholas Georgiadis Costume Design for Cleopatra in All for Love by John Dryden 1977 watercolor and gouache on paper McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas |
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| Leon Gilmour Fuchsias and Cello 1977 wood engraving San Jose Museum of Art, California |
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| Judith Golden In Peru 1977 gelatin silver print Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
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| Nan Goldin Chrissy with her 100-year-old Grandmother, Provincetown 1977 gelatin silver print Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston |
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| Scott Heiser Gerard Depardieu 1977 gelatin silver print Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington |
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| Jocelyn Herbert Lulu 1977 lithograph (poster for Metropolitan Opera production) McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas |
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| Anton Heyboer Circumstances 1977 oil on canvas Kunstmuseum, The Hague |
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| Jasper Johns Untitled 1977 screenprint Akron Art Museum, Ohio |
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| Alex Katz Round Hill 1977 oil on linen Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
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| Bernard Langlais Summer Music 1977 oil on board Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, Maine |
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| Nathan Oliveira Untitled 1977 oil on canvas Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
from Precious Five
Be patient, solemn nose,
Serve in a world of prose
The present moment well,
Nor surlily contrast
Its brash ill-mannered smell
With grand scents of the past.
That calm enchanted wood,
That grave world where you stood
So gravely at its middle,
Its oracle and riddle,
Has all been altered, now
In anxious times you serve
As bridge from mouth to brow,
As asymmetric curve
Thrust outward from a face
Time-conscious into space,
Whose oddness may provoke
To a mind-saving joke
A mind that would it were
An apathetic sphere:
Point, then, for honor's sake
Up the storm-beaten slope
From memory to hope
The way you cannot take.
– W.H. Auden (1950)