Gathered

Jan van Mieris
Group Portrait
ca. 1680
watercolor on paper (modello for painting)
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Wybrand Hendriks
Drawing Academy of Haarlem
1799
oil on panel
Teylers Museum, Haarlem

Henri Rousseau
Artillerymen
ca. 1893-95
oil on canvas
Guggenheim Museum, New York

Carl Gutherz
Bering Sea Arbitration Court
1894
oil on canvas
Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Tennessee

Edward van Altena
Nature Club Children's Museum
Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts
ca. 1915
hand-colored lantern slide
Archives of American Gardens, Washington DC

Anonymous Photographer
Dadists in Paris
1921
gelatin silver print
Bibliothèque nationale de France

Top row: Louis Aragon, Théodore Fraenkel, Paul Eluard, Emmanuel Faÿ.  Middle row: Paul Dermée, Philippe Soupault, Georges Ribemont Dessaignes.  Bottom row: Tristan Tzara (with monocle), Céline Arnauld, Francis Picabia, André Breton.

Erich Salomon
Nazi Deputies in Brown Shirts, Berlin
1930
gelatin silver print
Moderna Museet, Stockholm

Don Freeman
The First Washington Square Art Show
1932
lithograph
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Leroy Flint
The Readers
ca. 1935
etching
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Robert Riggs
Psychopathic Ward
ca. 1939
lithograph
New Britain Museum of American Art, Connecticut

Herman Landshoff
Artists in Exile
1942
gelatin silver print
(taken at Peggy Guggenheim's townhouse in New York)
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

Bottom row: Stanley Hayter, Leonora Carrington, Frederick Kiesler, Kurt Seligmann.  Middle row: Max Ernst, Amédée Ozenfant, André Breton, Fernand Léger, Berenice Abbott.  Back row: Jimmy Ernst, Peggy Guggenheim, John Ferren, Marcel Duchamp, Piet Mondrian. 

Arvid Fougstedt
Directors' Lunch at the Art Academy
1943
watercolor on paper
Prins Eugens Waldemarsudde, Stockholm

Eddy Posthuma de Boer
Amsterdam
1955
gelatin silver print
Kunstmuseum, The Hague

Irving Penn
Rock Groups - San Francisco
1967
platinum-palladium print
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

Miggs Burroughs
Nixon's Jury
1973
acrylic on board
(commissioned by Time magazine)
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

Hans Namuth
Leo Castelli Gallery - 25th anniversary Celebration
1982
gelatin silver print
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

Alex Prager
Crowd #5 (Washington Square West)
2013
inkjet print
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

from The Second Olympique Ode of Pindar

Soft-footed Winds with tuneful voyces there

                Dance through the perfum'd Aire.

There Silver Rivers through enameld Meadows glide,

                And golden Trees enrich their side.

Th' illustrious Leaves no dropping Autumn fear,

                And Jewels for their fruit they bear,

                Which by the Blest are gathered

For Bracelets to the Arm, and Guirlands to the Head.

Here all the Hero's, and their Poets live,

Wise Rhadamanthus did the Sentence give,

                Who for his justice was thought fit

With Soveraign Saturn on the Bench to sit.

                Peleus here, and Cadmus reign,

Here great Achilles wrathful now no more,

                Since his blest Mother (who before

                Had try'ed it on his Body in vain)

Dipt now his Soul in Stygian Lake,

Which did from thence a divine Hardness take,

That does from Passion and from Vice Invulnerable make.

– Pindar (518-446 BC), translated by Abraham Cowley (1656)