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Catherine Opie Self Portrait 1970 inkjet print Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh |
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Catherine Opie Justin Bond 1993 C-print NSU Art Museum, Fort Lauderdale, Florida |
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Catherine Opie Frankie 1994 C-print Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
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Catherine Opie Flipper, Tanya, Chloe & Harriet, San Francisco, California 1995 C-print Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
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Catherine Opie Untitled 1997 inkjet print Art Institute of Chicago |
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Catherine Opie Melissa & Lake, Durham, North Carolina 1998 C-print Guggenheim Museum, New York |
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Catherine Opie Untitled (Surfers Series) 2002-2003 C-print Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York |
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Catherine Opie Self Portrait Nursing 2004 C-print Guggenheim Museum, New York |
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Catherine Opie Saint Gilles du Gard 2007 three C-prints Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh |
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Catherine Opie Untitled #6 (Inauguration Series) 2009 pigment print Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC |
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Catherine Opie Untitled #26 (Inauguration Series) 2009 pigment print Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC |
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Catherine Opie Untitled #27 (Inauguration Series) 2009 pigment print Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC |
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Catherine Opie Untitled #31 (Inauguration Series) 2009 pigment print Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC |
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Catherine Opie Untitled #32 (Inauguration Series) 2009 pigment print Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC |
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Catherine Opie Diana Nyad 2010 inkjet print National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC |
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Catherine Opie Elizabeth 2013 inkjet print Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston |
from Ode 29, Book 3, paraphrased in Pindarique Verse
Descended of an ancient Line,
That long the Tuscan Scepter swayed,
Make haste to meet the generous wine,
Whose piercing is for thee delayed:
The rosie wreath is ready made;
And artful hands prepare
The fragrant Syrian oyl, that shall perfume thy hair.
When the Wine sparkles from afar,
And the well-natured Friend cries, come away;
Make haste, and leave thy business and thy care,
No mortal int'rest can be worth thy stay.
Leave for a while thy costly Country Seat;
And, to be great indeed, forget
The nauseous pleasures of the Great:
Make haste and come:
Come and forsake thy cloying store;
Thy Turret that surveys, from High,
The Smoke, and wealth, and noise of Rome;
And all the busie pageantry
That wise men scorn, and fools adore:
Come, give thy Soul a loose, and taste the pleasures of the poor.
– Horace (65-8 BC), translated by John Dryden (1685)