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| Josef Albers Homage to the Square: Confident 1954 oil on panel San Francisco Museum of Modern Art |
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| Robert Frank Charity Ball, New York City 1956 gelatin silver print Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Achille Etna Michallon Taormina - Ruins of Ancient Theater 1820 oil on paper, mounted on canvas Musée du Louvre |
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| Pierre Puvis de Chavannes Caricature Studies ca. 1840 drawing British Museum |
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| Josef Albers Homage to the Square: Silent Hall 1961 oil on panel Museum of Modern Art, New York |
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| Robert Frank Georgetown, South Carolina 1955 gelatin silver print Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Canaletto Capriccio with Classical Ruins, Rome before 1768 oil on canvas Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice |
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| Henry Tonks Next please! (caricature of Herbert Henry Asquith hypnotizing Lloyd George) 1915-16 ink and watercolor on paper British Museum |
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| Josef Albers Homage to the Square: Starting 1968 oil on panel San Francisco Museum of Modern Art |
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| Robert Frank Man resting aboard the Congressional Limited 1955 gelatin silver print Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| John Sell Cotman Ruined House 1808 watercolor on paper Ashmolean Museum, Oxford |
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| Alfred J. Frueh Caricature of Jack Dempsey 1920 drawing National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC |
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| Josef Albers Homage to the Square: Two Whites between Two Yellows 1958 oil on panel Museum of Modern Art, New York |
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| Robert Frank From the Bus, New York 1958 gelatin silver print National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Anonymous German Artist Ruins on the Palatine Hill 19th century oil on paper Morgan Library, New York |
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| Alfred J. Frueh Caricature of silent film star Alla Nazimova ca. 1910 drawing National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC |
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| Josef Albers Homage to the Square: White Monument 1951 oil on panel Museum of Modern Art, New York |
from In Time of War
He looked in all His wisdom from the throne
Down on the humble boy who kept the sheep,
And sent a dove; the dove returned alone:
Youth liked the music, but soon fell asleep.
But He had planned such future for the youth:
Surely His duty now was to compel;
For later he would come to love the truth,
And own his gratitude. The eagle fell.
It did not work: His conversation bored
The boy who yawned and whistled and made faces
And wriggled free from fatherly embraces;
But with the eagle he was always willing
To go where it suggested, and adored
And learnt from it the many ways of killing.
– W.H. Auden (1938)