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| Larry Rivers Astaire in the Air 1990 screenprint Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami |
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| Cindy Sherman Mrs Claus 1990 C-print Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, Texas |
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| Donald Sultan Ten Hearts 1990 aquatint Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami |
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| Beth Van Hoesen Traci 1990 hand-colored etching, aquatint and drypoint McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas |
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| Humberto Calzada Planning the Eclipse 1990 acrylic on canvas NSU Art Museum, Fort Lauderdale, Florida |
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| Simon Gunning Cypress 1990 oil on canvas New Orleans Museum of Art |
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| Hazel Kinney Cat 1990 felt pens on paper Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York |
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| Oscar Lakeman Containers no. 19 1990 acrylic on paper, mounted on canvas Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington |
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| John David Boyd Eve in the Garden 1990 acrylic on canvas Wichita Art Museum, Kansas |
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| Robert Motherwell Mexican Past 1990 acrylic on canvas Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio |
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| Joseph Nicoletti Night Still Life 1990 oil on canvas Portland Museum of Art, Maine |
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| Judith Shea Sex at Shaker Village 1990 tempera on paper Akron Museum of Art, Ohio |
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| James Strombotne Stately Women 1990 acrylic on canvas Orange County Museum of Art, Costa Mesa, California |
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| Rodney Smith Self Portrait with Leslie Siena 1990 gelatin silver print Portland Museum of Art, Maine |
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| Kent Bellows Jeffrey 1990 drawing New Britain Museum of American Art, Connecticut |
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| Alan Magee Meeting Soutine 1990 monotype, with added watercolor Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, Maine |
from In Praise of Limestone
If it form the one landscape that we, the inconstant ones,
Are consistently homesick for, this is chiefly
Because it dissolves in water. Mark these rounded slopes
With their surface fragrance of thyme and, beneath,
A secret system of caves and conduits; hear the springs
That spurt out everywhere with a chuckle,
Each filling a private pool for its fish and carving
Its own little ravine whose cliffs entertain
The butterfly and the lizard; examine the region
Of short distances and definite places:
What could be more like Mother or a fitter background
For her son, the flirtatious male who lounges
Against a rock in the sunlight, never doubting
That for all his faults he is loved; whose works are but
Extensions of his power to charm? From weathered outcrop
To hill-top temple, from appearing waters to
Conspicuous fountains, from a wild to a formal vineyard,
Are ingenious but short steps that a child's wish
To receive more attention than his brothers, whether
By pleasing or teasing, can easily take.
– W.H. Auden (1948)