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Isabel Bishop Nude 1925 etching Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
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Pablo Picasso Trois Nus debout 1927 etching Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
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Alfred Cheney Johnston Model peeking into Camera ca. 1930 gelatin silver print Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
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Alfred Cheney Johnston Nude with Drapery ca. 1925 gelatin silver print Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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Ivor Hele Reclining Figure 1929 drawing National Gallery of Australia, Canberra |
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Ivor Hele Kneeling Figure 1929 drawing National Gallery of Australia, Canberra |
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Edward Hopper Study of Model ca. 1920-25 drawing Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
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John Carroll Figure Study ca. 1930 drawing New Britain Museum of American Art |
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Harold Cazneaux Julian Ashton with Life Model ca. 1920-22 gelatin silver print Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney |
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Axel Fridell Model in the Studio ca. 1925 etching and drypoint Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
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Otto Gussmann Model on Sofa 1924 oil on canvas Galerie Neue Meister (Albertinum), Dresden |
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Richard Müller Drawing Class at the Academy 1920 oil on canvas Galerie Neue Meister (Albertinum), Dresden |
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Harry Wickey Wrestlers #1 1927 etching Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
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John Passmore Seated Model ca. 1930-35 oil on canvas Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney |
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Gladys Nelson Smith Portrait of a Model (Reggio) ca. 1925-30 oil on canvas Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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Grigory Gluckmann Reclining Model 1934 watercolor on paper Art Institute of Chicago |
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Edward Hagedorn Nude ca. '1930 etching Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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Gaston Lachaise Figure Study ca. 1931 drawing Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
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Jacques Lipchitz Standing Model ca. 1930 drawing Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
Orfeo
Ah downward through the dark coulisse,
Impelled to walk the stage of hell,
Unwind as in a theater gilt and puce
His opulence of pain until
Each damned soul dropped its trembling fan
(Which in the gusts of wooing trembled still)
And wept to hear him: it was then
Sickeningly he divined, but with an odd thrill,
Among the shadows of a box
That brow, that hand outspread upon
The plush worn bare, a white peacock's
Genius at dusk on a dissolving lawn,
Her loss within his music's rise and fall
Having become perpetual.