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| Howard Hack Cufflink (Object series) 1969 lithograph San Jose Museum of Art, California |
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| Jean Dubuffet The Gossiper II 1969 painted epoxy resin Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas |
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| Llyn Foulkes Leonard's Rock 1969 oil and acrylic on canvas Orange County Museum of Art, Costa Mesa, California |
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| Jasper Johns Bread 1969 embossed and painted lead Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas |
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| Philip Guston Untitled 1969 acrylic on panel Nasher Museum of Art, Durham, North Carolina |
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| Helen Frankenthaler Wisdom 1969 acrylic on canvas Akron Art Museum, Ohio |
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| Duane Michals The Human Condition 1 1969 gelatin silver print Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Duane Michals The Human Condition 2 1969 gelatin silver print Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Duane Michals The Human Condition 3 1969 gelatin silver print Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Duane Michals The Human Condition 4 1969 gelatin silver print Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Duane Michals The Human Condition 5 1969 gelatin silver print Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Duane Michals The Human Condition 6 1969 gelatin silver print Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Frank Stella Hiraqla Variation III 1969 acrylic on canvas Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California |
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| Thomas Algernon Weir Ferns 1969 gelatin silver print Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California |
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| Garry Winogrand Centennial Ball, Metropolitan Museum of Art 1969 gelatin silver print Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York |
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| Garry Winogrand Centennial Ball, Metropolitan Museum of Art 1969 gelatin silver print Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York |
Numbers and Faces
The Kingdom of Numbers is all boundaries
Which may be beautiful and must be true;
To ask if it is big or small proclaims one
The sort of lover who should stick to faces.
Lovers of small numbers go benignly potty,
Believe all tales are thirteen chapters long,
Have animal doubles, carry pentagrams,
Are Millerites, Baconians, Flat-Earth-Men.
Lovers of big numbers go horridly mad,
Would have the Swiss abolished, all of us
Well purged, somatotyped, baptised, taught baseball:
They empty bars, spoil parties, run for Congress.
True, between faces almost any number
Might come in handy, and One is always real;
But which could any face call good, for calling
Infinity a number does not make it one.
– W.H. Auden (1950)