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| Abe Blashko A Stitch at Night (The Tailor) 1938 drawing Seattle Art Museum |
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| Paul Cadmus Aspects of Suburban Life: Polo Spill 1938 etching Wichita Art Museum, Kansas |
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| Stuart Davis Concert Pitch 1938 gouache on board Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York |
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| Guy Pène Du Bois Fog, Amagansett 1938 oil on canvas Wichita Art Museum, Kansas |
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| Julio González Study for Mother and Child 1938 drawing Institut Valencià d'Art Modern |
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| Harry Gottlieb The Strike is Won! 1938 screenprint Wichita Art Museum, Kansas |
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| Carl Robert Holty Circus Forms 1938 oil on panel Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, Texas |
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| George Hurrell Bette Davis 1938 gelatin silver print Portland Museum of Art, Maine |
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| Fernand Léger Head of a Woman 1938 drawing Fralin Museum of Art, Charlottesville, Virginia |
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| Helen Levitt New York 1938 gelatin silver print Akron Art Museum, Ohio |
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| Henry Moore Stringed Figure 1938 bronze statuette Dallas Museum of Art |
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| Barbara Morgan Martha Graham and Erick Hawkins in American Document 1938 gelatin silver print North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh |
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| Pablo O'Higgins Man in Nazi Society 1938 lithograph (poster for public lecture) Seattle Art Museum |
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| Georgia O'Keeffe Red and Pink Rocks and Teeth 1938 oil on canvas Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Pablo Picasso Seated Woman with Hat 1938 oil on panel Menil Collection, Houston |
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| Ben Shahn Farm People at the Fair, central Ohio 1938 gelatin silver print Art Institute of Chicago |
from Shorts I
Between those happenings that prefigure it
And those that happen in its anamnesis
Occurs the Event, but that no human wit
Can recognize until all happening ceases.
* * *
To Goethe: A Complaint
How wonderfully your songs begin
With praise of Nature and her beauty,
But then, as if it were a duty,
You drag some god-damned sweetheart in.
Did you imagine she'd be flattered?
They never sound as if they mattered.
* * *
A moon profaned by
Sectarian din, death by
Fervent implosion:–
Possibles. But here and now
Our oath to the living word.
– W.H. Auden (1959-69)