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| Anne Appleby Untitled 1992 oil paint and wax on canvas Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York |
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| Rudolf de Crignis #01.37 2001 oil on canvas Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York |
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| Alfonso Fratteggiani Bianchi Senza Titolo, Blu 2004 pigment on stone Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York |
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| Gottfried Honegger Z-611 1970 acrylic paint on cast fiberglass Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York |
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| Heiner Thiel Untitled 1998 anodized aluminum Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York |
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| Ludwig Sander Composition - Blue 1960 oil paint and crayon on canvas Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York |
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| Wolfgang Tillmans Konzentrische Kreise 1999 C-print National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Arthur Wesley Dow Pelham, New York ca. 1890 cyanotype San Francisco Museum of Modern Art |
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| Mark Tansey Lens 1999 oil on canvas Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh |
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| Robert Motherwell The August Sea #6 1972 acrylic on canvas Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York |
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| William Scott Blue Painting 1960 oil on canvas Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York |
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| Brice Marden 6 (Course) 1987-88 oil on linen San Francisco Museum of Modern Art |
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| David Schnell Schleier 2012 oil on canvas Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin |
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| Willem de Kooning A Tree in Naples 1960 oil on canvas Museum of Modern Art, New York |
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| Sean Scully Landline Blue Sea 2016 oil on aluminum Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut |
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| Saliba Douaihy Sea Wind 1966 oil on canvas Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York |
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| Alice Makara SS #4 1978 acrylic on canvas Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York |
from Argument
Wrap gifts in clothes, prepare a present for a simpler nation. A heliograph seen from below, a camera with smuggled lenses: a soured drink for the tongue, a douche for the unpopular member, a dream dirt-cheap for the man of action. Leave the corks behind as warning of wires, let the shafts be fenced as before, leave ordinary kindness.
Going abroad tonight? The face lit up by the booking-clerk's window. Poetry of the waiting room. Is it wise, the short adventure on the narrow ship? The boat-train dives accomplished for the hoop of the tunnel; over the derne cutting lingering, its white excreta. Too late: smelling the first sea-weed we may not linger. The waving handkerchiefs recede and the gulls wheel after screaming for scraps. Throb of turbines below water, passing the mud islands, the recurrent light. Past. Handrail, funnel, oilskins, them, His will. The lasting sky.
– W.H. Auden, The Orators (1931)