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| Alexander Archipenko Kneeling King 1937 gouache and pastel on board Dallas Museum of Art |
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| Ludwig Hohlwein International Hunting Exposition, Berlin 1937 offset print (poster) Kunstbibliothek, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin |
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| Dorothea Lange Waiting for Relief Cheques, Calipatria, California 1937 gelatin silver print Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts |
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| Nathan Lerner Head, Maxwell Street 1937 gelatin silver print Menil Collection, Houston |
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| Alfred Stieglitz Dorothy Norman 1937 gelatin silver print Akron Art Museum, Ohio |
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| Wally Elenbaas Solarized Portrait with Cigarette 1937 gelatin silver print Kunstmuseum, The Hague |
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| Gustave van de Woestijne Still Life with Grapes 1937 oil on canvas Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp |
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| Georgia O'Keeffe Red Hills with Flowers 1937 oil on canvas Art Institute of Chicago |
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| John Edward Billmyer Lily 1937 engraving (WPA project) Akron Art Museum, Ohio |
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| Max Beckmann Self Portrait 1937 oil on canvas Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Victor Chalupski Untitled 1937 gelatin silver print with graphite Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Arshile Gorky Composition 1937 oil on canvas Museum of Fine Arts, Houston |
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| Walt Kuhn Acrobats in Dressing Room 1937 drawing (study for painting) Frye Art Museum, Seattle |
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| Oskar Schlemmer Three Figures against a Window 1937 oil, tempera and chalk on burlap Von der Heydt Museum, Wuppertal |
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| Ralston Crawford Section of Steel Plant 1937 oil on canvas Wichita Art Museum, Kansas |
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| Georgia O'Keeffe Chama River, Ghost Ranch, New Mexico 1937 oil on canvas New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe |
Recitative by Death
Ladies and gentlemen, you have made most remarkable
Progress, and progress, I agree, is a boon;
You have built more automobiles than are parkable,
Crashed the sound-barrier, and may very soon
Be setting up juke-boxes on the Moon:
But I beg to remind you that, despite all that,
I, Death, still am and will always be Cosmocrat.
Still I sport with the young and daring; at my whim,
The climber steps upon the rotten boulder,
The undertow catches boys as they swim,
The speeder steers onto the slippery shoulder:
With others I wait until they are older
Before assigning, according to my humor,
To one a coronary, to one a tumor.
Liberal my views upon religion and race;
Tax-posture, credit-rating, social ambition
Cut no ice with me. We shall meet face to face,
Despite the drugs and lies of your physician,
The costly euphemisms of the mortician:
Westchester matron and Bowery bum,
Both shall dance with me when I rattle my drum.
– W.H. Auden (1963)