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| Judy Dater Self Portrait, Salt Flats 1981 C-print Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
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| Richard Hurst Untitled 1981 gelatin silver print Dallas Museum of Art |
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| Helena van der Kraan Art Dealers 1981 gelatin silver print Kunstmuseum, The Hague |
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| Frans Zwartjes Interior 1981 gelatin silver print Kunstmuseum, The Hague |
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| Todd Webb O'Keeffe in Juan Hamilton Studio 1981 gelatin silver print San Diego Museum of Art |
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| Diane Schmidt and Michele Fitzsimmons Drake Hotel 1981 gelatin silver print Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Leon Gilmour Acanthus 1981 wood-engraving San Jose Museum of Art, California |
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| Corneille (Guillaume Cornelis van Beverloo) Exhibition - Galerie Fabien Boulakia, Paris 1981 lithograph (poster) NSU Art Museum, Fort Lauderdale, Florida |
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| Pierre Alechinsky Exhibition - Galerie Maeght, Paris 1981 offset print (poster) NSU Art Museum, Fort Lauderdale, Florida |
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| Emilio Sánchez House with a View of the Sea 1981 oil on canvas Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, Texas |
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| Michael Mogavero Guardian 1981 acrylic on canvas Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami |
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| Harry Callahan Kansas City 1981 dye transfer print San Diego Museum of Art |
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| David Hockney Triple Bill at the Metropolitan Opera (Satie - Poulenc - Ravel) 1981 screenprint (poster) McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas |
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| Edgardo Miguel Giménez The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov (staged in Buenos Aires) 1981 lithograph (poster) Denver Art Museum |
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| Clarence Holbrook Carter Study for Appearance 1981 acrylic on paper Huntington Museum of Art, West Virginia |
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| Terry Frost Untitled 1981 screenprint San Diego Museum of Art |
To T.S. Eliot on his Sixtieth Birthday
When things began to happen in our favorite spot,
a key missing, a library bust defaced,
then on the tennis-court one morning,
outrageous, the bloody corpse, and always,
blank day after day, the unheard-of drought, it was you
who, not speechless from shock but finding the right
language for thirst and fear, did much to
prevent a panic. It is the crime that
counts, you will say. We know, but would gratefully add,
today as we wait for the Law to take its course
(and which of us will escape whipping?),
that your sixty years have not been wasted.
– W.H. Auden (1948)