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| Carl Robert Holty Untitled 1937 lithograph Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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| Hans Hofmann Untitled ca. 1940 gouache and crayon on paper Guggenheim Museum, New York |
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| Richard Nickel Untitled (Garrick Theater) ca. 1955 gelatin silver print Art Institute of Chicago |
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| June Harwood Untitled (Sliver series) 1960-61 acrylic on canvas Benton Museum of Art, Pomona College, California |
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| Thomas George Untitled ca. 1965 lithograph Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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| Scott Hyde Untitled (Nude) ca. 1965 lithograph Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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| Cleve Gray Untitled 1968 lithograph Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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| Al Held Untitled before 1974 screenprint Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC |
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| Olivia Parker Untitled #10 1980 dye imbibition print Art Institute of Chicago |
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| John Fox Untitled no. 8203 1982 mixed media on canvas private collection |
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| Adam Fuss Untitled 1986 gelatin silver print Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia |
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| Thomas Nozkowski Untitled (7-84) 1996 oil on linen, mounted on panel Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC |
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| Francesco Clemente Untitled #6 1998 watercolor on paper Denver Art Museum |
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| Dwight Marica Untitled 3 2002 polystyrene Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam |
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| Laura Owens Untitled 2004 oil and acrylic on linen Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Sonia Gomes Untitled 2009 textile fabrics wound onto wire Guggenheim Museum, New York |
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| Gauri Gill Untitled (8) 2015 pigment print Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney |
The Unbeliever
He sleeps on the top of a mast
with his eyes fast closed.
The sails fall away below him
like the sheets of his bed,
leaving out in the air of the night the sleeper's head.
Asleep he was transported there,
asleep he curled
in a gilded ball on the mast's top,
or climbed inside
a gilded bird, or blindly seated himself astride.
"I am founded on marble pillars,"
said a cloud. "I never move.
See the pillars there in the sea?"
Secure in introspection
he peers at the watery pillars of his reflection.
A gull had wings under his
and remarked that the air
was "like marble." He said: "Up here
I tower through the sky
for the marble wings on my tower-top fly."
But he sleeps on the top of his mast
with his eyes closed tight.
The gull inquired into his dream,
which was, "I must not fall.
The spangled sea below wants me to fall.
It is hard as diamonds, it wants to destroy us all."
– Elizabeth Bishop (1946)