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| Georges Despret Tanagra Figure 1906 pâte de verre Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia |
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| Fidus (Hugo Höppener) Temple Dance of the Soul 1910 oil on canvas Berlinische Galerie, Berlin |
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| Eric Gill Ex Libris - Francis Meynell 1914 wood-engraving British Museum |
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| Guy Pène Du Bois Jeanne Eagels on stage in Rain 1922 oil on canvas Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
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| Durr Freedley Portrait of Alice Miles Carpenter 1925 gouache on paper Dallas Museum of Art |
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| Moses Wainer Dykaar Portrait of Alice Roosevelt Longworth 1929 marble Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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| Victor Joseph Gatto Suffering Christ ca. 1935-40 oil on canvas Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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| George Demetrios Youth ca. 1940 bronze New Britain Museum of American Art |
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| Robert Frank London 1952 gelatin silver print Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
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| Lutz Dille Coney Island 1962 gelatin silver print National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa |
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| Bruce Davidson Untitled 1965 gelatin silver print Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC |
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| Robert Giusti Europe's Youth 1977 tempera on canvas (commissioned by Time magazine) National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC |
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| Ralph Gibson Untitled 1985 gelatin silver print Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
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| Rineke Dijkstra Coney Island N.Y. USA, June 20, 1993 1993 C-print Guggenheim Museum, New York |
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| Rineke Dijkstra Odessa, Ukraine, August 4, 1993 1993 C-print Guggenheim Museum, New York |
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| David Lance Goines Berkeley Conference Center 1993 offset-lithograph (poster) Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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| Jim Dine Pinocchio 1997 oil and enamel on canvas Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
from The Vanity of Human Wishes
Let Observation with extensive View,
Survey Mankind, from China to Peru;
Remark each anxious Toil, each eager Strife,
And watch the busy Scenes of crouded Life;
Then say how Hope and Fear, Desire and Hate,
O'erspread with Snares the clouded Maze of Fate,
O'erspread with Snares the clouded Maze of Fate,
Where wav'ring Man, betray'd by vent'rous Pride,
To tread the dreary Paths without a Guide;
As treach'rous Phantoms in the Mist delude,
Shuns fancied Ills, or chases airy Good.
How rarely Reason guides the stubborn Choice,
Rules the bold Hand, or prompts the suppliant Voice,
How Nations sink, by darling Schemes oppress'd,
When Vengeance listens to the Fool's Request.
Fate wings with ev'ry Wish th' afflictive Dart,
Each Gift of Nature, and each Grace of Art,
With fatal Heat impetuous Courage glows,
With fatal Sweetness Elocution flows,
Impeachment stops the Speaker's pow'rful Breath,
And restless Fire precipitates on Death.
But scare observ'd the Knowing and the Bold,
Fall in the gen'ral Massacre of Gold;
Wide-wasting Pest! that rages unconfin'd,
And crouds with Crimes the Records of Mankind,
For Gold his Sword the Hireling Ruffian draws,
For Gold the hireling Judge distorts the Laws;
Wealth heap'd on Wealth, nor Truth nor Safety buys,
The Dangers gather as the Treasures rise.
– Juvenal (AD 50-127), as adapted and translated by Samuel Johnson (1749)