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| Claes Oldenburg Two Cheeseburgers with Everything 1962 burlap, plaster and enamel Museum of Modern Art, New York |
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| Anonymous American Photographer Women dressed to match ca. 1940 gelatin silver print Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York |
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| Herbert Bayer Things to Come ca. 1938 photolithograph Museum of Modern Art, New York |
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| Anonymous American Manufacturer Pair of Vases ca. 1870-80 cobalt glass Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts |
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| Elizabeth Peyton Prince Harry and Prince William 2000 lithograph Museum of Modern Art, New York |
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| Henry Swift Plaster Forms ca. 1932 gelatin silver print San Francisco Museum of Modern Art |
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| Andy Warhol Silver Marlon 1963 screenprint over silver paint on linen San Francisco Museum of Modern Art |
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| Eero Aarnio for Magis (Italy) Puppy Stools 2005 polyethylene Museum of Modern Art, New York |
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| Anonymous English Artist Eye Studies ca. 1850-1900 drawing Ashmolean Museum, Oxford |
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| Charles Courtney Curran Lotus Blossoms 1888 oil on canvas Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Anonymous Chinese Sculptor Coffin Finials 10th-13th century wood Princeton University Art Museum |
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| Stuart Davis Two Heads 1929 lithograph Museum of Modern Art, New York |
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| Susan Felter Flying Españas 1982 C-print San Francisco Museum of Modern Art |
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| Anonymous American Photographer Double Studio Portrait ca. 1955 gelatin silver print Museum of Modern Art, New York |
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| Nan Goldin Honda brothers in cherry blossom storm #2 Tokyo 1994 C-print San Francisco Museum of Modern Art |
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| Lady Clementina Hawarden Clementina Maude and Isabella Grace, daughters of the artist ca. 1863 albumen print Museum of Modern Art, New York |
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| Philip Guston Edge of Town 1969 oil on canvas Museum of Modern Art, New York |
As a boy lately come up from the country to town
Returns for the day to his village in expensive shoes,
Standing scornful in a ring of old companions
Amazes them with new expressions, with strange hints
And promises, then leaves them never to return,
Who later will never know of his feverish end
In dockland dosshouse or frozen on the Embankment
Under the luminous dial of Big Ben –
So is the fate of the insolent mind that takes
Truth as itself, in homicidal fantasies
Of itself as the divine punisher of the world,
In aphasia and general paralysis of the insane.
– W.H. Auden (1929)