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| Guy Pène Du Bois Café du Dôme 1925-26 oil on panel National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Joan Eardley Children and Chalked Wall 3 1962-63 oil and collage on canvas Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh |
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| Jacob Eichholtz The Ragan Sisters 1818 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Mary Lloyd Estrin Untitled 1977 gelatin silver print Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York |
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| Walker Evans Subway Passengers 1941 gelatin silver print Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Andreas Feininger Greek Coffee House, Mulberry Street, Manhattan ca. 1940 gelatin silver print Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
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| Larry Fink Untitled 1971 gelatin silver print Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York |
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| Hal Fischer Handkerchiefs 1977 carbon pigment print Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York |
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| Gilbert and George Here 1987 hand-colored photomontage Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Nan Goldin Naomi and Colette gossiping, Boston 1973 gelatin silver print Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York |
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| Jan Gossaert Hercules and Dejanira 1517 oil on panel Barber Institute of Fine Arts, University of Birmingham, West Midlands |
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| Peter Hujar Zachy and Gamal Sherif (Twins) 1985 gelatin silver print National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Anonymous Italian Painter Commedia dell'Arte figures Franca Trippa and Fritellino ca. 1790-1810 oil on canvas Museo del Teatro alla Scala, Milan |
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| Frances Benjamin Johnston Miss Stevenson & Mrs Hardin ca. 1895-1900 platinum print National Museum of American History, Washington DC |
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| Alex Katz Isaac and Oliver 2013 oil on linen National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Two Girls under an Umbrella 1910 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Helen Levitt New York City ca. 1940 gelatin silver print Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York |
On the extinction of the Venetian Republic, 1802
Once did she hold the gorgeous East in fee;
And was the safeguard of the West: the worth
Of Venice did not fall below her birth,
Venice, the eldest child of Liberty.
She was a maiden City, bright and free;
No guile seduced, no force could violate;
And, when she took unto herself a Mate,
She must espouse the everlasting Sea.
And what if she had seen those glories fade,
Those titles vanish, and that strength decay;
Yet shall some tribute of regret be paid
When her long life hath reached its final day:
Men are we, and must grieve when even the shade
Of that which once was great, is passed away.
– William Wordsworth (1770-1850)