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| Allan Sekula Dockers loading Sugar Ship, Calais 1996 C-prints (triptych) Orange County Museum of Art, Costa Mesa, California |
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| Charles Haslewood Shannon The Bathers ca. 1905 lithograph National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa |
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| Everett Shinn Bathers 1910 oil on canvas Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC |
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| W. Eugene Smith Country Doctor 1948 gelatin silver print Princeton University Art Museum |
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| attributed to Gilbert Soest Portrait of a Royalist Officer ca. 1646-49 oil on canvas Courtauld Gallery, London |
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| Andrea Solario Christ carrying the Cross ca. 1510 oil on panel Galleria Borghese, Rome |
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| Pierre Soulages Painting - March, 1958 1958 oil on canvas Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge |
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| Carl Spitzweg Philosopher in the Park ca. 1851 oil on canvas Von der Heydt Museum, Wuppertal |
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| attributed to Hendrick van Steenwyck the Younger Charles I as Prince of Wales ca. 1619-21 oil on canvas Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen |
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| Joel Sternfeld Learning by Jean Charlot Camp Rockmont, Black Mountain, North Carolina (outdoor mural, disregarded and disappearing) 2005 C-print Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
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| Marie Spartali Stillman Kelmscott Manor from the Field ca. 1890 watercolor and gouache on paper Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington |
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| Lou Stoumen Nude (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania) ca. 1935 gelatin silver print New Britain Museum of American Art, Connecticut |
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| Benjamin Strauss Dolores del Rio ca. 1927 gelatin silver print National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC |
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| Antonio Saura Sija (Gina Lollobrigida) 1959 oil on canvas Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC |
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| Theo Scharf The Music Lovers ca. 1923 etching Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney |
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| Johann Heinrich Schönfeld Calvary ca. 1647-48 oil on canvas Princeton University Art Museum |
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| Sebastiano del Piombo Figure of Martha (study for painting, The Raising of Lazarus) ca. 1517-19 drawing Städel Museum, Frankfurt |
"Brian's trouble – as with so many aesthetes of his generation – was a basic ignorance, due to having failed to learn anything or to have learned how to learn when at school and university. This vagueness had the effect of casting suspicion on the things he actually had learnt – except for matters of clothes, deportment and behaviour, in which for a few years he reigned supreme. He should have been a Prince Genji composing epigrams and perfumes, despatching footmen with love letters, judging flower arrangements. But he was too poor and too intelligent. He was also extremely ambitious and determined to be famous, and to dominate the company he found himself in. This he could only do through mockery of those who were stupider or commoner than himself."
– Cyril Connolly, issuing an unfriendly assessment of Brian Howard based on a Mediterranean tour they took together in 1933 – Connolly paid the bills while being derided by his companion