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| George Platt Lynes Gertrude Stein 1931 gelatin silver print National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC |
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| George Platt Lynes Self Portrait 1933 gelatin silver print National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC |
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| George Platt Lynes Jared French ca. 1933 gelatin silver print National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC |
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| George Platt Lynes Marianne Moore 1935 gelatin silver print National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC |
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| George Platt Lynes Katherine Anne Porter 1936 gelatin silver print National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC |
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| George Platt Lynes Christopher Isherwood ca. 1940 gelatin silver print National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC |
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| George Platt Lynes Vera Zorina ca. 1940 gelatin silver print National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC |
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| George Platt Lynes Kay Boyle 1941 gelatin silver print National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC |
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| George Platt Lynes Lincoln Kirstein ca. 1942 gelatin silver print National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC |
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| George Platt Lynes Gloria Swanson 1942 gelatin silver print National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC |
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| George Platt Lynes Ingrid Bergman ca. 1943 gelatin silver print National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC |
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| George Platt Lynes Model in Evening Gown ca. 1943 gelatin silver print National Gallery of Australia, Canberra |
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| George Platt Lynes Saul Steinberg ca. 1943 gelatin silver print National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC |
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| George Platt Lynes Lotte Lehmann ca. 1947 gelatin silver print National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC |
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| George Platt Lynes Alfred Kinsey ca. 1948 gelatin silver print National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC |
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| George Platt Lynes Paul Cadmus, George Tooker and Jared French at work ca. 1948 gelatin silver print National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC |
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| George Platt Lynes Pavel Tchelitchew 1950 gelatin silver print National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC |
from Translation of the 16th Ode of the 2d Book of Horace
Ease, is the weary Merchant's Prayer,
Who Ploughs by Night th'Ægean Flood,
When neither Moon nor Stars appear,
Or Glimmer faintly thro' the Cloud.
For Ease, the Mede with Quiver graced,
For Ease, the Thracian Hero sighs,
Delightful Ease all Pant to Taste,
A Blessing which no Treasure buys.
Nor neither Gold can Lull to Rest,
Nor all a Consul's Guard beat off,
The Tumults of a troubled Breast,
The cares that Haunt a Gilded Roof.
Happy the Man whose Table shews
A few clean Ounces of Old Plate,
No Fear intrudes on his Repose,
No sordid Wishes to be Great.
Poor short-lived things! what Plans we lay,
Ah why forsake our Native home,
To distant Climates speed away,
For Self cleaves fast where'er we Roam.
– Horace (65-8 BC), translated by William Cowper (ca. 1780)