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| Angelo Falconetto St George and the Dragon before 1567 etching Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel |
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| Hans Ulrich Franck Scene of War ca. 1643-56 etching Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum, Braunschweig |
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| Giovanni Domenico Ferretti (Giandomenico d'Imola) Study for Ceiling Decoration, Villa Puccini di Scornio, Pistoia ca. 1724-25 drawing Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Bénigne Gagneraux The Enraged Bull ca. 1795 etching (made in Rome) British Museum |
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| Oliver Madox Brown Exercise 1870 watercolor and gouache on paper Manchester Art Gallery |
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| Kenyon Cox Study for painting The Pursuit of the Ideal ca. 1891 drawing Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum |
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| Jo Davidson Ida Rubenstein before 1922 plaster Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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| John Steuart Curry The Flying Codonas 1932 tempera and oil on board Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
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| Don Freeman Late Editions 1934 lithograph Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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| Boris Artzybasheff Computer 1965 tempera on panel (commissioned by Time magazine) National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC |
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| Juan Genovés Single Direction (from series, Silencio Silencio) 1971 etching Art Institute of Chicago |
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| John Fenton Bike Race 1976 etching and aquatint Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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| Judith Berry The Yellow Bull 1988 oil on canvas Musée National des Beaux-Arts du Québec |
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| Ivan Chermayeff Jacob's Pillow 1993 screenprint (poster) Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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| Skip Arnold Spinning 1997 C-prints (triptych) Orange County Museum of Art, Costa Mesa, California |
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| Karin Davie Drag-on 1999 oil on canvas Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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| Marley Freeman Things That Pull 2021 oil and acrylic on linen Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
Wading at Wellfleet
In one of the Assyrian wars
a chariot first saw the light
that bore sharp blades around its wheels.
That chariot from Assyria
went rolling down mechanically
to take the warriors by the heels.
A thousand warriors in the sea
could not consider such a war
as that the sea itself contrives
but hasn't put in action yet.
This morning's glitterings reveal
the sea is "all a case of knives."
Lying so close, they catch the sun,
the spokes directed at the shin.
The chariot front is blue and great.
The war rests wholly with the waves:
they try revolving, but the wheels
give way, they will not bear the weight.
– Elizabeth Bishop (1946)