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| François-Joseph Navez Portrait of a Boy 1831 oil on canvas Musée du Louvre |
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| Jean-Joseph Foucou River God 1785 marble Musée du Louvre |
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| Philips Koninck Half-Length Figure of a Man 1662 drawing Ashmolean Museum, Oxford |
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| Abe Frajndlich Cindy Sherman, Tabula Rasa 1987 inkjet print Museum of Modern Art, New York |
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| Anthony Friedkin Brandy, Los Angeles 1970 gelatin silver print Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (Achenbach Foundation) |
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| Childe Hassam The New York Window 1912 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Elizabeth Peyton Spencer 1999 colored pencil on paper Museum of Modern Art, New York |
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| Man Ray Le Poète 1938 gelatin silver print San Francisco Museum of Modern Art |
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| Richard Diebenkorn Woman in Profile 1958 oil on canvas San Francisco Museum of Modern Art |
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| Larry Fink Giselle - Nice, France 1988 gelatin silver print Museum of Modern Art, New York |
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| Pierre Petit Portrait of Germaine Lemercier ca. 1865 albumen silver print Museum of Modern Art, New York |
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| Lucian Freud Kai 1991-92 etching Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Malvina Hoffmann Pavlova 1924 terracotta National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Amedeo Modigliani Madame Kisling ca. 1917 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Vincenzo Gemito Portait of Giuseppe Verdi 1873 bronze Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts |
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| Pablo Picasso Classical Head 1922 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Kingdom of Gandhara Head of Buddha AD 150-200 schist Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri |
Who will endure
Heat of day and winter danger,
Journey from one place to another,
Nor be content to lie
Till evening upon headland over bay,
Between the land and sea,
Or smoking wait till hour of food,
Leaning on chained-up gate
At edge of wood?
Metals run
Burnished or rusty in the sun
From town to town,
And signals all along are down;
Yet nothing passes
But envelopes between these places,
Snatched at the gate and panting read indoors,
And first spring flowers arriving smashed,
Disaster stammered over wires,
And pity flashed.
For should professional traveller come,
Asked at the fireside he is dumb,
Declining with a small mad smile
And all the while
Conjectures on the maps that lie
About in ships long high and dry
Grow stranger and stranger.
There is no change of place
But shifting of the head
To keep off glare of lamp from face,
Or climbing over to wall-side of bed;
No one will ever know
For what conversion brilliant capital is waiting,
What ugly feast may village band be celebrating;
For no one goes
Further than railhead or the ends of piers,
Will neither go nor send his son
Further through foothills than the rotting stack
Where gaitered gamekeeper with dog and gun
Will shout 'Turn back'.
– W.H. Auden (1930)