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| Lola Flash Boys Kissing, Provincetown ca. 1988 C-print Museum of Modern Art, New York |
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| Jedd Garet Two 1984 acrylic on canvas Museum of Modern Art, New York |
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| Frederick Hammersley Side-wise 1994 oil on linen San Francisco Museum of Modern Art |
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| Ludwig Hohlwein Starnberger See 1910 lithograph (poster) Museum of Modern Art, New York |
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| Takenobu Igarashi Alphabet Gallery Poster Calendar (January) 1987 offset-lithograph San Francisco Museum of Modern Art |
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| Ronnie Landfield Diamond Lake 1969 acrylic on canvas Museum of Modern Art, New York |
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| Roy Lichtenstein Modern Painting with Bolt 1967 oil on canvas Museum of Modern Art, New York |
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| Elizabeth Peyton Liam & Noel, Loch Lomond 1997 oil on canvas San Francisco Museum of Modern Art |
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| Jack Tworkov Variables II 1964-65 oil on canvas private collection |
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| Serge Vandercam Leda and the Swan I 1962 watercolor and gouache on paper private collection |
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| Matthias Weischer Blatt 2013 oil on canvas private collection |
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| Trevor Winkfield Sèvres Corset Bouquet 2006 acrylic on linen private collection |
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| Jean-Baptiste Armand Guillaumin Puy Barriou, Creuse ca. 1911 oil on canvas Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin |
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| František Kupka Shades of Violet 1919 oil on canvas Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin |
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| Vicki Varvaressos Vases 2023 acrylic on canvas private collection |
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| John Wells Untitled Painting 1961-63 oil on canvas Palant House Gallery, Chichester, West Sussex |
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| Tom Phillips The Artist's Mother at 18 and 88 1989 acrylic on canvas Ashmolean Museum, Oxford |
Brother Fire
When our brother Fire was having his dog's day
Jumping the London streets with millions of tin cans
Clanking at his tail, we heard some shadow say
'Give the dog a bone' – and so we gave him ours;
Night after night we watched him slaver and crunch away
The beams of human life, the tops of topless towers.
Which gluttony of his for us was Lenten fare
Who mother-naked, suckled with sparks, were chill
Though cotted in a grille of sizzling air
Striped like a convict – black, yellow and red;
Thus were we weaned to knowledge of the Will
That wills the natural world but wills us dead.
O delicate walker, babbler, dialectician Fire,
O enemy and image of ourselves,
Did we not on those morning after the All Clear,
When you were looting shops in elemental joy
And singing as you swarmed up city block and spire,
Echo your thought in ours? 'Destroy! Destroy!'
– Louis MacNeice (1943)