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| Edvard Munch The Kiss 1921 oil on canvas Museum of Fine Arts, Houston |
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| Piet Mondrian Painting I 1921 oil on canvas Museum Ludwig, Cologne |
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| Henri Matisse Recumbent Woman 1921 oil on canvas Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia |
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| Henri Martin Cottages in Spring 1921 oil on canvas Musée Unterlinden, Colmar |
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| Louis Marcoussis Coupe de Fruits 1921 pigment on glass Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia |
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| George Luks Mike McTeague 1921 oil on canvas Wichita Art Museum, Kansas |
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| Henri Le Sidaner Small Table at Dusk 1921 oil on canvas Ohara Museum of Art, Kurashiki, Japan |
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| Moïse Kisling Portrait of Renée Kisling 1921 oil on canvas Museum Ludwig, Cologne |
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| Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Head of Nina Hard 1921 woodcut Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin |
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| Orval Hixon Portrait of dancer Cleveland Bronner 1921 gelatin silver print Wichita Art Museum, Kansas |
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| Jacoba van Heemskerck Image no. 126 1921 oil on canvas Kunstmuseum, The Hague |
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| Juan Gris Le Canigou 1921 oil on canvas Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York |
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| Julie de Graag Portrait of a Woman 1921 drawing Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands |
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| Asa Cheffetz Ex Libris - Hyde Smith 1921 wood-engraving Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts |
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| George Bellows Portrait of Elsie Speicher 1921 lithograph Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas |
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| Eugène Atget Brothel in the town of Versailles 1921 gelatin silver print Fralin Museum of Art, Charlottesville, Virginia |
Short Ode to the Cuckoo
No one now imagines you answer idle questions
– How long shall I live? How long remain single?
Will butter be cheaper? – nor does your shout make
husbands uneasy.
Compared with arias by the great performers
such as the merle, your two-note act is kid stuff:
our most hardened crooks are sincerely shocked by
your nesting habits.
Science, Aesthetics, Ethics, may huff and puff but they
cannot extinguish your magic: you marvel
the commuter as you wondered the savage.
Hence, in my diary,
where I normally enter nothing but social
engagements and lately, the death of friends, I
scribble year after year when I first hear you,
of a holy moment.
– W.H. Auden (1971)