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| Geer van Velde Composition with Head 1977 oil on canvas Kunstmuseum, The Hague |
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| Stan Trecker Untitled 1977 gelatin silver print Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Frank Stella Inaccessible Island Rail 1977 lithograph and screenprint Dallas Museum of Art |
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| Cindy Sherman Untitled Film Still #3 1977 gelatin silver print Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston |
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| Emilio Sánchez Casita de Gloria 1977 lithograph Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, Texas |
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| Dieter Roth Double Piccadilly Painting 1977 acrylic paint on offset print Fralin Museum of Art, Charlottesville, Virginia |
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| Mark Power Silver Gown 1977 platinum-palladium print Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
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| A.R. Penck The Madness of the Past 1977 oil and acrylic on canvas Hall Collection, Schloss Derneburg, Germany |
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| Nathan Oliveira Figure with Striped Leg 1977 oil on canvas Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, California |
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| Georgia O'Keeffe From a Day with Juan IV (the Washington Monument) 1977 oil on canvas Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Robert Motherwell Elegy Study 1977 oil on paper, mounted on board Walker Art Center, Minneapolis |
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| Joan Mitchell Posted 1977 oil on canvas Walker Art Center, Minneapolis |
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| Joel Meyerowitz 7th and Chestnut, St Louis 1977 dye imbibition print Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Joe Maloney Westwood, NJ 1977 dye imbibition print Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Sandu Liberman Girl with Carnations 1977 lithograph NSU Art Museum, Fort Lauderdale, Florida |
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| Weyman Lew Beach 1977 hand-colored etching San Jose Museum of Art, California |
from Precious Five
Be modest, lively ears,
Spoiled darlings of a stage
Where any caper cheers
The paranoiac mind
Of this undisciplined
And concert-going age,
So lacking in conviction
It cannot take pure fiction,
And what it wants from you
Are rumors partly true;
Before you catch its sickness
Submit your lucky quickness
And levity to rule,
Go back again to school,
Drudge patiently until
No whisper is too much
And your precision such
At any sound that all
Seem natural, not one
Fantastic or banal,
And then do what you will:
Dance with angelic grace,
In ecstasy and fun,
The luck you cannot place.
– W.H. Auden (1950)