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| Lou Stoumen Berkeley 1970 gelatin silver print New Britain Museum of American Art, Connecticut |
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| Garry Winogrand Untitled (Man with Birds) 1970 gelatin silver print Dallas Museum of Art |
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| Kenneth Josephson New York State 1970 gelatin silver print Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Leon Levinstein Untitled 1970 gelatin silver print Portland Museum of Art, Maine |
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| Leonard Baskin Daggoo (character in Moby Dick) 1970 lithograph Tacoma Art Museum, Washington State |
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| Frank Bowling Middle Passage 1970 acrylic and aerosol paint and crayon on canvas Menil Collection, Houston |
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| John Clem Clarke Untitled (Caravaggio Pastiche) 1970 lithograph Akron Art Museum, Ohio |
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| Peter Dean Evil Eye Drive-In 1970 oil on canvas Akron Art Museum, Ohio |
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| José Guerrero Black Arches 1970 oil on canvas Museo de Bellas Artes de Granada, Spain |
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| Allen Harrill Six Aligned (Plunge Series) 1970 acrylic on canvas North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh |
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| Asger Jorn Sulla Strada II 1970 lithograph NSU Art Museum, Fort Lauderdale, Florida |
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| Luigi Lucioni Arrangement in Blue 1970 oil on canvas Denver Art Museum |
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| Conrad Marca-Relli Summer Suite 1970 paper and textile collage on panel Akron Art Museum, Ohio |
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| Jules Olitski Mauve/Blue with Green and Yellow 1970 screenprint NSU Art Museum, Fort Lauderdale, Florida |
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| Thomas Algernon Weir Parker Ranch 1970 cyanotype Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California |
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| Fred Dasch Flea Market 1970 C-print Tacoma Art Museum, Washington State |
from Homage to Clio
Our hill has made its submission and the green
Swept on into the north: around me,
From morning to night, flowers duel incessantly,
Color against color, in combats
Which they all win, and at any hour from some point else
May come another tribal outcry
Of a new generation of birds who chirp,
Not for effect but because chirping
Is the thing to do. More lives than I perceive
Are aware of mine this May morning
As I sit reading a book, sharper senses
Keep watch on an inedible patch
Of unsatisfactory smell, unsafe as
So many areas are: to observation
My book is dead, and by observations they live
In space, as unaware of silence
As Provocative Aphrodite or her twin,
Virago Artemis, the Tall Sisters
Whose subjects they are. That is why, in their Dual Realm,
Banalities can be beautiful,
Why nothing is too big or too small or the wrong
Color, and the roar of an earthquake
Rearranging the whispers of streams a loud sound
Not a din: but we, at haphazard
And unseasonably, are brought face to face
By ones, Clio, with your silence. After that
Nothing is easy. We may dream as we wish
Of phallic pillar or navel-stone
With twelve nymphs twirling about it, but pictures
Are no help: your silence already is there
Between us and any magical centre
Where things are taken in hand. Besides,
Are we so sorry? Woken at sun-up to hear
A cock pronouncing himself himself
Though all his sons had been castrated and eaten,
I was glad I could be unhappy: if
I don't know how I shall manage, at least I know
The beast-with-two-backs may be a species
Evenly distributed but Mum and Dad
Were not two other people. To visit
The grave of a friend, to make an ugly scene,
To count the loves one has grown out of,
Is not nice, but to chirp like a tearless bird,
As though no one dies in particular
And gossip were never true, unthinkable:
If it were, forgiveness would be no use,
One-eye-for-one would be just and the innocent
Would not have to suffer.
– W.H. Auden (1955)