“Keep awake, alive, new. Perform the paradox of being hard and yet soft. Survive without calcification of the tender membranes. Be a poet. Be alive.” ~ Tennessee Williams

Eugène Romain Thirion, Jeanne d' Arc, 1876

Mongolian noblewomen, 1910s - 1920s

Shinsui Itō , Washing the Hair , 1952

Hunter S. Thompson and his "attorney" Oscar Zeta Acosta chilling in Caesar's Palace, April 1971

Pierre Amédée Marcel-Beronneau, Salomé et son Tropheé, 1937

Edward Hopper's sketchbook

Christian Schad , Agosta, the Pigeon-Chested Man, and Rasha, the Black Dove , 1929

Natori Shunsen , Ôtani Tomoemon VII playing the leading role of the Kabuki dance "Yuki" , 1951

Leonor Fini, Jeu de dames ou Le pari de Zobeïde, 1975

M.L. Folcardy, Prometheus, ~1915

Thomas Lea, That Two-Thousand Yard Stare , 1944

Natori Shunsen , Kamisuki [Combing her hair], from the series Shunsen bijin sanshi [Three Beauties by Shunsen] , 1928

Yuko Shimizu , The Unwritten #32.5 , 2012

James Ensor , The Bad Doctors, 1892

Charles Maurin, Woman Sleeping, 1895

Unknown (Beryl de Zoete collection), A court dancer of noble birth wearing a batik design reserved for court use, and medals on her waist cloth. , late 1930s