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| Martha Alf Woven Canvas #9 1973 acrylic on canvas Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
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| Trevor Allen Yellow Couch with Zippo 1973 screenprint Wichita Art Museum, Kansas |
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| Alice Baber Akbar Road 1973 oil on canvas Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, Texas |
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| Will Barnet Chess Game 1973 oil on canvas Wichita Art Museum, Kansas |
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| Robert Owen Beach Standing Figure 1973 acrylic on canvas NSU Art Museum, Fort Lauderdale, Florida |
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| George Brecht No Smoking 1973 lithograph Walker Art Center, Minneapolis |
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| Patrick Caulfield Ah! Nuées accourues des côtes de La Manche 1973 screenprint Fralin Museum of Art, Charlottesville, Virginia |
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| Hilo Chen Beach #4 1973 oil on canvas San Jose Museum of Art, California |
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| Robert Cottingham Hot 1973 lithograph Wichita Art Museum, Kansas |
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| Sam Gilliam Green Lizzie 1973 acrylic on canvas McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas |
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| Ralph Goings Alpha 1973 watercolor and casein on paper Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, North Carolina |
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| Adolph Gottlieb Phoenix Burst 1973 oil paint and alkyd resin on canvas North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh |
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| Asger Jorn Exhibition, Kestner-Gesellschaft, Hannover 1973 lithograph (poster) NSU Art Museum, Fort Lauderdale, Florida |
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| Roy Lichtenstein Untitled 1973 screenprint Wichita Art Museum, Kansas |
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| Robert Mapplethorpe Alex 1973 toned gelatin silver print Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
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| Toon Michiels Interior 1973 gelatin silver print Kunstmuseum, The Hague |
Bathtub Thoughts
(c. 500-c. 1950)
Hail, future friend, whose present I
With gratitude now prophesy,
Kind first to whom it shall occur
My past existence to infer.
Brief salutation best beseems
Two nameless ordinal extremes:
Hail and farewell! Chance only knows
The length of our respective rows,
But our numeric bond is such
As gods nor love nor death can touch.
So thought, I thought, the last Romano-Briton
To take his last hot bath.
– W.H. Auden (1955)