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| Dora Maar Père Ubu (baby armadillo) 1936 gelatin silver print Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Ilse Bing Circus - Madison Square Garden 1936 gelatin silver print Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Paul Klee Swan Pond 1937 gouache on paper Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York |
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| Arshile Gorky Mural Study for Marine Transportation Building New York World's Fair ca. 1939 gouache on board Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York |
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| Thérèse Lessore The Islington Twins ca. 1930 watercolor on paper Ashmolean Museum, Oxford |
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| Walker Evans Wedding Portrait - Margot Loines ca. 1936 gelatin silver print Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Brassaï Henry Miller ca. 1930-34 gelatin silver print National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC |
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| Walt Kuhn Zinnias 1933 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Man Ray Studio Door 1939 oil on canvas Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh |
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| Clare Leighton Hop Pickers 1930 drawing (print study) Ashmolean Museum, Oxford |
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| Lawrence Kupferman Victorian Mansion 1938 etching Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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| Thomas Esmond Lowinsky Miss Avril Turner 1937 oil on canvas Ashmolean Museum, Oxford |
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| Wyndham Lewis Portrait of writer Naomi Mitchison 1938 oil on canvas Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh |
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| Fernand Léger Maud Dale 1935 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| George Platt Lynes Katherine Anne Porter 1932 gelatin silver print Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Helen Levitt New York 1939 gelatin silver print Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York |
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| Jacques-Henri Lartigue Renée Perle unpacking the Picnic ca. 1930-32 gelatin silver print Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York |
I have therefore one common and authentic Philosophy I learned in the Schools, whereby I discourse and satisfy the reason of other men; another more reserved and drawn from experience, whereby I content mine own. Solomon that complained of ignorance in the height of knowledge hath not only humbled my conceits but discouraged my endeavours. There is yet another conceit that hath sometimes made me shut my books, which tells me it is a vanity to waste our days in the blind pursuit of knowledge; it is but attending a little longer and we shall enjoy that by instinct and infusion which we endeavour at here by labour and inquisition. It is better to sit down in a modest ignorance, and rest contented with the natural blessing of our own reasons than buy the uncertain knowledge of this life with sweat and vexation which death gives every fool gratis, and is an accessory of our glorification.
– Sir Thomas Browne, from Religio Medici (1642)