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1935: Fixing her Hair

Serge Sudeikin: Fixing her Hair (Ruby Elzy in “Porgy and Bess,” 1935) (1935) (listen)

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1940: Baling Hay

Evelyn Mary Dunbar: Baling Hay (1940)

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1957: Krazy Ikes

Krazy Ikes!

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1897: Steelworks

Lionel Walden: Steelworks, Cardiff, at Night (1897)

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1927: The Pat, Pat, Pat of the Sleepy Sheep

From Katherine Morris Lester’s Great Pictures and Their Stories, Book Three (1927): Picture Study is rapidly becoming an im­portant factor in our public school education. “Nearly every progressive city,” says the Bureau of Education, Washington, D.C., “is making use of … Continue reading

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2008: Between Life and Death

Gonzalo Lebrija: Entre La Vida y La Muerte (2008)

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1923: Ivory, Apes and Peacocks

John McKirdy Duncan: Ivory, Apes and Peacocks (also known as The Queen of Sheba) (1923)

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2013: War Hero

Jorge Otero: Cáscara [shell] (from the series War Hero) (2013)

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1890: Low Tide

Thomas Alexander Harrison: Low Tide, Brittany (c. 1890)

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3rd Century BC: Dog

Dog Vessel: Colima, Mexico (200 B.C. – A.D. 500) (source)

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