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| Walt Kuhn Waiting for the Robert E. Lee 1934 oil on canvas Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami |
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| Walt Kuhn Hydrangeas 1934 oil on canvas New Britain Museum of American Art, Connecticut |
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| Walt Kuhn Clown with Drum and Jug 1943 oil on canvas New Britain Museum of American Art, Connecticut |
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| Walt Kuhn Youthful Clown ca. 1910 watercolor on paper New Britain Museum of American Art, Connecticut |
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| Édouard Manet Portrait of Madame Auguste Manet (Eugénie Désirée Fournier Manet, the artist's mother) 1863 oil on canvas Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston |
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| Édouard Manet Portrait of Madame Édouard Manet (Suzanne Leenhoff) ca. 1874-76 oil on canvas Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California |
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| Édouard Manet Spanish Woman wearing a Black Cross 1865 oil on canvas Dallas Museum of Art |
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| Édouard Manet Young Woman in a Round Hat ca. 1877-79 oil on canvas Princeton University Art Museum |
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| Jacques Hurtubise The Model 1959 oil on panel Musée National des Beaux-Arts du Québec |
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| Jacques Hurtubise Flamme de Totem 1988 acrylic on canvas Musée National des Beaux-Arts du Québec |
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| Jacques Hurtubise Pinotte 1973 acrylic on canvas Musée National des Beaux-Arts du Québec |
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| Jacques Hurtubise Splash 777 1980 acrylic on canvas Musée National des Beaux-Arts du Québec |
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| René Magritte L'Anniversaire 1959 oil on canvas Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto |
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| René Magritte Force of Circumstance 1958 oil on canvas Menil Collection, Houston |
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| René Magritte In the Airy Glades 1965 oil on canvas Menil Collection, Houston |
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| René Magritte The Banquet 1958 oil on canvas Art Institute of Chicago |
from Part Three of The Age of Anxiety
Rosetta says:
Are our dreams indicative? Does it exist,
That last landscape
Of gloom and glaciers and great storms
Where, cold into chasms, cataracts
Topple, and torrents
Through rocky ruptures rage for ever
In a winter twilight watched by ravens,
Birds on basalt,
And shadows of ships long-shattered lie,
Preserved disasters, in the solid ice
Of frowning fjords?
Does the Moon's message mean what it says:
"In that oldest and most hidden of all places
Number is unknown"?
Can lying lovers believe their bones'
Unshaken assurance
That all the elegance, all the promise
Of the world they wish is waiting there?
Even while she is still speaking, their fears are confirmed, their hopes denied. For the world from which their journey has been one long flight rises up before them now as if the whole time it had been hiding in ambush, only waiting for the worst moment to reappear to its fugitives in all the majesty of its perpetual fury.
– W.H. Auden (1944-46)