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| Arshile Gorky Organization 1933-36 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Weaver Hawkins The French Kitchen 1933 watercolor on paper Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney |
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| Mervin Jules Hall Bedroom ca. 1938 tempera on panel Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York |
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| Don Freeman Schubert Alley 1932 lithograph Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
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| John Gutmann Towards the Pool 1934 gelatin silver print Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Hans Bellmer La Poupée ca. 1935 hand-colored gelatin silver print Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York |
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| Jean Hélion Composition 1934 oil on canvas Guggenheim Museum, New York |
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| Walker Evans Lincoln Kirstein ca. 1930-31 gelatin silver print Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Walker Evans Lincoln Kirstein, Double-Exposed, Left and Right Profiles ca. 1930-31 film negative Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Hans Hofmann Afterglow 1938 oil on board Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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| Charles Houghton Howard Hare Corner 1939 watercolor on paper Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
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| Marsden Hartley Flowers from Claire Spencer's Garden 1939 oil on panel Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York |
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| Edwin Holgate La Salle setting out to discover the Mississippi 1932 oil on canvas Chalet du Mont Royal, Montréal |
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| George Hoyningen Huene Henri Cartier-Bresson 1933 gelatin silver print Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| William H. Johnson Holcha Krake ca. 1930-35 hand-colored woodcut Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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| Edward Hopper Cape Cod Evening 1939 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| George Leslie Hunter Still Life, Stocks 1930 oil on canvas Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh |
from A Letter to a Friend
I am sorry you understood so little concerning that worthy gentleman your dear friend, and that I must also perform that unwelcome office to tell you, ad portam rigidos calces extendit, he is dead and buried and by this time no puny in the famous nations of the dead. For though he left this world not many days ago, yet every hour largely addeth unto that dark society, and considering the incessant mortality of mankind, you cannot well conceive there dyeth in the whole world fewer than a thousand an hour.
Though at this distance you had not particular information of his death, yet your affection may cease to wonder you had not some sense of intimation thereof by dreams, visions, sympathetical communications or thoughtful whisperings, which divers seem to have had at the death of their dearest friends. For since we read in that famous story that spirits themselves were fayne to tell their fellows at a distance that the great Antonio was coming, we have sufficient excuse for our ignorance in such points, nor can we well look for such secret insinuations, but must rest content in the usual way of knowledge by information.
Though the incertainty of the world's end hath confounded all human prediction, yet they which shall live to see the sun and moon darkened and the stars to fall from the heavens will hardly be deceived in the approach of the last day. And therefore somewhat strange it is that the common fallacy of consumptive persons, who feel not themselves to die and therefore still hope for life, should also reach their friends in perfect health and judgement.
– Sir Thomas Browne (1605-1682)