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Alex Israel
Sky Backdrop
2013
acrylic on canvas
Museum of Modern Art, New York

Jerry Iverson
Children Playing
1990
acrylic on canvas
Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin

Mark Innerst
Coastal Inlet
1986
oil and acrylic on panel
Museum of Modern Art, New York

Jörg Immendorff
Café Deutschland (Style War)
1980
acrylic on canvas
Museum of Modern Art, New York

Sheila Eaton Isham
Midsummer's Dream #173
1979
oil and acrylic on linen
Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York

Robert Irwin
Untitled
1962-63
oil on canvas
Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York

John O'Brien Inman
Landscape
before 1896
oil on panel
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

George Inness
Green Landscape
1886
oil on canvas
Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts

Alberto Issel
Landscape
1870
oil on canvas
Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Genoa

Gerolamo Induno
Foreboding
ca. 1860
oil on canvas
Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan

John William Inchbold
Wooded Slope with Figures
ca. 1855-60
watercolor on paper
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Eugène Isabey
Cliffs of Normandy
ca. 1850
oil on panel
Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts

Denzil Ibbetson
Postmortem Portrait of Napoleon
1821
oil on paper, mounted on canvas
Musée Fesch, Ajaccio, Corsica

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
Portrait of sculptor Paul Lemoyne
ca. 1810-11
oil on canvas
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri

Pietro degli Ingannati
Holy Family with young St John the Baptist
ca. 1530
oil on panel
Museo del Settecento Veneziano, Ca' Rezzonico, Venice

Innocenzo da Imola
Virgin and Child in Glory
with St Peter, St Michael Archangel and St Benedict
ca. 1517-22
oil on panel (altarpiece)
Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna

Anonymous Italian Artist working in Verona
Mucius Scaevola before Lars Porsena
ca. 1475-1500
tempera and oil on panel
Museo Santa Caterina, Treviso

from Argument

    By the flash of insight in the rears; by the slow influence of natural scenery; by the phrase in the book and by the word overheard on the platform,

            O Poirot, deliver us.

    In the moment of vision; in the hour of applause; in the place of defeat, and in the hour of desertion,

            O Holmes, deliver us.

    For those who dance in the capitals; for those who handle a saw; those who discuss the problems of style and those aware of the body; for those who have done everything and those who dare not begin,

            O Cat with the Fiddle, hear us.

    For those who cannot go to bed; for those in dormitories; for those in pairs; for those who sleep alone, 

            O Bull at the Gate, hear us.

– W.H. Auden, The Orators (1931)