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| Aubrey Beardsley Untitled 1896 line-block print Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia |
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| El Lissitzky Untitled ca. 1919-20 oil on canvas Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice |
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| Rudolf Bauer Untitled 1933 crayon, ink and gouache on paper Guggenheim Museum, New York |
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| Sonia Gechtoff Untitled 1952 lithograph Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
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| Mary Webb Untitled 1956 collage of colored and painted papers National Gallery of Australia, Canberra |
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| Larry Bell Untitled 1960 oil on paper mounted on panel Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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| Claire Falkenstein Untitled ca. 1965 lithograph Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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| Todd Walker Untitled 1970 gelatin silver print Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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| Alexander Liberman Untitled 1970 lithograph Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
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| Helen Lundeberg Untitled 1971 screenprint Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
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| Leon Levinstein Untitled ca. 1973 gelatin silver print Portland Museum of Art, Maine |
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| Richard Estes Untitled 1974-75 screenprint Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
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| Frances Barth Untitled 1977 oil on canvas Minneapolis Institute of Art |
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| William Eggleston Untitled 1978 C-print Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
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| Dick Wray Untitled ca. 1990-95 oil on canvas Dallas Museum of Art |
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| Rick Lowe Untitled 2020 acrylic paint and paper collage on canvas Menil Collection, Houston |
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| Stanley Whitney Untitled 2019 oil pastel on paper Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
One Art
The art of losing isn't hard to master;
so many things seem filled with the intent
to be lost that their loss is no disaster.
Lose something every day. Accept the fluster
of lost door keys, the hour badly spent.
The art of losing isn't hard to master.
Then practice losing farther, losing faster:
places, and names, and where it was you meant
to travel. None of these will bring disaster.
I lost my mother's watch. And look! my last, or
next-to-last, of three loved houses went.
The art of losing isn't hard to master.
I lost two cities, lovely ones. And, vaster,
some realms I owned, two rivers, a continent.
I miss them, but it wasn't a disaster.
– Even losing you (the joking voice, a gesture
I love) I shan't have lied. It's evident
the art of losing's not too hard to master
though it may look like (Write it!) like disaster.
– Elizabeth Bishop (1976)