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| John Chamberlain Redwing 1960 welded and painted steel Walker Art Center, Minneapolis |
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| John Chamberlain Huzzy 1961 welded and painted steel Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri |
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| John Chamberlain Clyde 1961 welded and painted steel Walker Art Center, Minneapolis |
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| John Chamberlain Dolores James 1962 welded and painted steel Guggenheim Museum, New York |
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| John Chamberlain Jackpot 1962 welded and painted steel Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
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| John Chamberlain Jim 1962 welded and painted steel Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
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| John Chamberlain Sweet William 1962 welded and painted steel Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
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| John Chamberlain Untitled 1962 relief of painted paper, fabric and sheet-metal on panel Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
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| John Chamberlain Velvet White 1962 welded and painted steel Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
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| John Chamberlain Kora 1963 welded and painted steel Tate Modern, London |
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| John Chamberlain Fancy ca. 1963 welded and painted steel Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia |
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| John Chamberlain Untitled 1963 lithograph Princeton University Art Museum |
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| John Chamberlain Untitled 1963 screenprint on acetate Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh |
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| John Chamberlain Box Candy 1974 welded and painted steel Saint Louis Art Museum |
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| John Chamberlain Dancing Duke 1974 welded and painted steel Dallas Museum of Art |
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| John Chamberlain Flashback #2 1977 lithograph Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio |
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| John Chamberlain Installation Model for McNamara's Band 1979 mixed-media construction Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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| John Chamberlain Toots Wheat 1989 welded and painted steel Seattle Art Museum |
from Hôtel de l'Univers et Portugal
The strange bed, whose recurrent dream we are,
Basin, and shutters guarding with their latch
The hour of arrivals, the reputed untouched Square.
Bleakly with ever fewer belongings we watch
And have never, it each time seems, so coldly before
Steeped the infant membrane of our clinging
In a strange city's clear grave acids;
Or thought how like a pledge the iron key-ring
Slid overboard, one weighty calm at Rhodes,
Down to the vats of its eventual rusting.
* * *
Bare room, bleak problem set for space,
Fold us ever and over in less identity
Than six walls hold, the oval mirror face
Showing us vacantly how to become only
Bare room, mere air, no hour and no place,
Lodging of chance, and bleak as all beginning.
We had begun perhaps to lack a starlit Square.
But now our very poverties are dissolving,
Are swallowed up, strong powders to ensure
Sleep, by a strange bed in the dark of dreaming.
– James Merrill (1959)