1940s

Pablo Picasso, The Acrobat, 1930 Frida Kahlo at the Pablo Picasso exhibition, Mexico City's Museo de Arte Moderno, 1944

Eli Lotar, an urchin in the palm of sculptor Michael Tombros' hand, 1931 . “My heart's in my hand, and...

Roy Lichtenstein, Landscape, 1964 . "What interests me is living and dying for what one loves." Albert Camus, The...

Esther Bubley, Woman listening to radio in boardinghouse room, Washington DC, 1943 . "For many people in the future, radio...

Melba Liston in the Dizzy Gillespie Big Band, 1948 . Melba Doretta Liston (1926 –1999) was an American jazz trombonist,...

Too Late for Tears (1949) Director: Byron Haskin Writers: Roy Huggins (screenplay), from his Saturday Evening Post serial Cinematography: William...

Charles and Ray Eames pinned by chair bases outside their workshop at 901 Washington Blvd. in Venice, CA, 1947 . "The details...

Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir, 1950 . "But what a funny thing it is to travel like that, leaving...

^ William Lindsay Gresham, Nightmare Alley, 1946 ...

Helen Levitt, New York, 1940 Helen Levitt, N. Y. (Child with mask and gun) 1940 Helen Levitt, New York, (Masks...