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| Alex Katz Upside-Down Ada 1965 oil on linen Museum of Modern Art, New York |
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| Alen MacWeeney Chimney Sweep and Children, Ireland ca. 1965-66 gelatin silver print Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York |
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| Jusepe de Ribera St James the Greater ca. 1634 oil on canvas Museo de Bellas Artes de Sevilla |
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| Thomas Lawrence Self Portrait ca. 1799 drawing Ashmolean Museum, Oxford |
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| Zofia Kulik The Splendor of Myself II 1997 photomontage Museum of Modern Art, New York |
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| Gerhard Richter Brigid Polk 1971 oil on linen San Francisco Museum of Modern Art |
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| Oscar Gustave Rejlander Character Study ca. 1855 albumen print Princeton University Art Museum |
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| Alice Neel Portrait of composer William Walton 1967 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Giambattista Moroni Portrait of a Man at age 29 1567 oil on canvas Accademia Carrara, Bergamo |
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| Robert Mapplethorpe Francesca Thyssen 1981 gelatin silver print Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh |
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| Daniel Macnee Lady in Gray 1859 oil on canvas Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh |
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| Auguste Renoir Portrait of Madame Henriot ca. 1876 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Elizabeth Peyton Marc Jacobs 2003 etching on pink paper National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC |
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| Carl Larsson Self Portrait 1906 oil on canvas Gallerie degli Uffizi, Florence |
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| William McTaggart Portrait of Mrs William Lawrie 1881 oil on canvas Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh |
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| attributed to Raphael Portrait of Pietro Perugino ca. 1504-1506 oil on panel Gallerie degli Uffizi, Florence |
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| Irving Penn Jasper Johns 2006 gelatin silver print Museum of Modern Art, New York |
from Argument
For those capable of levitation; for those who have days of collapse; for those whose impulses are negative,
Fair Maid of Kent, hear us.
For those who elect to live in the bower; for those on the hill; for those who return to the epoch of the poisoner,
O Man laden with Mischief, hear us.
For those who take vows of silence; for those who do not; for those who visit churches after the death of sons,
O Marquis of Granby, hear us.
For all parasites and carrion feeders, for the double rose and for domesticated animals,
O Green Man, hear us.
And that it may please thee to calm this people,
George, we beseech thee to hear us.
– W.H. Auden, The Orators (1931)