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| Thomas Eakins An Actress (Portrait of Suzanne Santje) 1903 oil on canvas Philadelphia Museum of Art |
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| Pablo Picasso Head of a Woman 1909 gouache, watercolor, colored chalk on paper Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Pablo Picasso Study of Seated Man 1905 drawing Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Oskar Kokoschka Alma Mahler 1913 drawing Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Emil Nolde Head of a Man in the Dark 1907 lithograph Art Institute of Chicago |
from On The Improbability of Wonder
The light was alabaster: at her feet lay all of the world's treasures – the yellow music of mathematics, and the alpha axis of the compass; the curved perfection of the globe and music's invisible colonnades; color's liquid harmonics, and the blade and the bell – all wonders laid before her, but lifeless under her inward languid gaze –
All bitter herbs – bad luck, calamity of circumstance.
Moreover for her pleasure: the magnetic needle of distance and the crystal's frozen palace; physics' blizzard of forces and logic's inlaid ivory – the affection of dogs, the astrolabe and the axe, lovers' trials and the barbed arrow of attainment –
All chains, weight, cast-up refuse –
– Ellen Hinsey (The White Fire of Time, Wesleyan University Press, 2002)
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| Emil Nolde Portrait of Mary Wigman ca. 1920 watercolor Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Lovis Corinth Corinth's Son Rowing 1919 drypoint Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Lovis Corinth Guitar Player 1919 drypoint Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Lovis Corinth Death and the Artist 1916 drypoint Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Henri Matisse Woman before an Aquarium 1921-23 oil on canvas Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Gerald Brockhurst Corinne 1925 etching Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Gerald Brockhurst The Dancer 1925 etching Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Jean-Louis Forain Widow selling her Paintings 1926 gouache Art Institute of Chicago |
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| El Lissitzky USSR Russian Exhibition 1929 lithograph (poster) Art Institute of Chicago |