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| Giambattista Tiepolo Fallen Angel ca. 1752 drawing Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
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| Gaetano Gandolfi Académie ca. 1760 drawing Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio |
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| Jean-Bernard Restout Sleep ca. 1771 oil on canvas Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio |
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| Pierre-Paul Prud'hon Académie ca. 1819-20 drawing Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
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| Alphonse Legros after Michelangelo Ignudo from the Sistine Ceiling before 1887 drawing British Museum |
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| Frederick William MacMonnies Académie 1885 drawing Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio |
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| Jean-Jacques Henner St Sebastian tended by St Irene ca. 1889 drawing Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
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| Édouard Vuillard Figure Study ca. 1898 drawing Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio |
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| Anonymous British Artist Académie ca. 1900 drawing Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio |
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| Anonymous British Artist Académie ca. 1900 drawing Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio |
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| Edgar Degas Standing Nude ca. 1900 drawing Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio |
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| Günther Krampf Brunnen ca. 1915-30 gelatin silver print Getty Museum, Los Angeles |
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| Rupert Bunny Reclining Model ca. 1920-30 drawing National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne |
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| Paul Cadmus Nude #1 1984 etching Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio |
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| Paul Cadmus Nude #2 1984 etching Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio |
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| Paul Cadmus Nude #3 1984 etching Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio |
Fallen
Crabapple blossoms, blown,
fall and flutter down,
littering like confetti
the main street of our city.
Confetti . . . the simile
quickens, and you and I,
walking sometime later
amidst the drifted litter
come to realize
that we feel ill at ease
in this belated beauty
since, if it is confetti,
it means that we have missed
some great thing seen by most:
Say that we did; what was it?
Some dignitary's visit?
Some holiday parade
or hometown hero's ride?
Something in us cautions
against the kind of questions
that now come welling up
but which we cannot stop:
If there was a celebration,
what was the occasion,
and why did we not know
about it until now?
We read the daily papers;
we chatted with our neighbors
and friends and relatives.
We've lived here all our lives,
but why, if we are no longer
at home here, should we linger?
Where can we turn, and to whom,
if this is not our home?
– Bill Coyle (2006)