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| Edward R. Dickson Branch Abstraction ca. 1913 platinum print Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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| Marsden Hartley Berlin Abstraction 1914-15 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Edward Wadsworth Abstract Composition 1915 gouache and ink on paper Tate Modern, London |
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| Paul Strand Abstraction Porch Shadows, Connecticut 1916 gelatin silver print Museum of Modern Art, New York |
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| Sophie Tauber-Arp Oval Composition with Abstract Motifs ca. 1922 wool Arp Museum Bahnhof-Rolandseck, Remagen, Germany |
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| Georgia O'Keeffe Abstraction Blue 1927 oil on canvas Museum of Modern Art, New York |
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| Wilfred Zogbaum Abstraction ca. 1939 oil on canvas Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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| Irene Rice Pereira Abstraction 1940 oil on canvas San Francisco Museum of Modern Art |
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| Virginia Admiral Abstraction no. 1 1941 oil on canvas San Francisco Museum of Modern Art |
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| Eric Wilson Abstract: The Kitchen Stove 1943 mixed media on panel Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney |
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| Edward Wadsworth Abstract with Rose (for F,) 1945 tempera on linen, mounted on panel private collection |
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| Ad Reinhardt Abstract Painting (Blue) 1952 oil on canvas Museum of Modern Art, New York |
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| William Turnbull Abstract #25 1958 oil on canvas Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York |
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| Wes Walters Early Abstract 3 1960 oil on canvas private collection |
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| Derwent Wise Abstract Architecture 1965 painted wood and formica Hatton Gallery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne |
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| Brett Weston Large Abstraction 1968 gelatin silver print Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York |
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| John Clem Clarke Abstract 34 1972 oil on canvas Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
The Listeners
'Is there anybody there?' said the Traveller,
Knocking on the moonlit door;
And his horse in the silence champed the grasses
Of the forest's ferny floor:
And a bird flew up out of the turret,
Above the Traveller's head:
And he smote upon the door again a second time;
'Is there anybody there?' he said.
But no one descended to the Traveller;
No head from the leaf-fringed sill
Leaned over and looked into his grey eyes,
Where he stood perplexed and still.
But only a host of phantom listeners
That dwelt in the lone house then
Stood listening in the quiet of the moonlight
To that voice from the world of men:
Stood thronging the faint moonbeams on the dark stair,
That goes down to the empty hall,
Hearkening in an air stirred and shaken
By the lonely Traveller's call.
And he felt in his heart their strangeness,
Their stillness answering his cry,
While his horse moved, cropping the dark turf,
'Neath the starred and leafy sky;
For he suddenly smote on the door, even
Louder and lifted his head: –
'Tell them I came, and no one answered,
That I kept my word,' he said.
Never the least stir made the listeners,
Though every word he spake
Fell echoing through the shadowiness of the still house
From the one man left awake:
Ay, they heard his foot upon the stirrup,
And the sound of iron on stone,
And how the silence surged softly backward,
When the plunging hoofs were gone.
– Walter de la Mare (1912)