Endpapers from 'The World Beneath the Sea', published by The National Geographic Society, 1967
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‘Elephant Foot' Glacier, Greenland - Photographer and date unknown
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The Second day of Creation according to the book of Genesis. From The Nuremberg Chronicle by Hartmann Schedel, circa 1493
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Length of cotton with design of crested waves in white on blue ground created by stencil resist-dyeing (katazome or chûgata). Mid-19th c
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Henri Matisse, Polynesia : The Sea, 1946
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Pablo Picasso, Nude Standing by the Sea, 1929
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Cristoforo de Predis, (1440-1486), from Stories of St Joachim, St. Anne, the Virgin Mary, Jesus, the Baptist and the End of the World, 1476
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Yashima Gakutei, Crabs near a tide line, Japan, 1827
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Paul Klee - Water Pyramids, 1924
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Edward Steichen, Naval convoy bound for North Africa in Operation Torch, 1943
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Daido Moriyama, Sea - Hachinohe City, Japan, 1990
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Ralph Steiner, Two Men and the Ocean, 1921
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Alex Katz, West Palm Beach, 1997
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Raymond Pettibon’s Perfect Waves
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Raymond Pettibon’s Perfect Waves
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Raymond Pettibon’s Perfect Waves
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Robert Motherwell, from the series 'Beside the Sea', 1962
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Christo and Jeanne - Claude, Surrounded Islands, Biscayne Bay, Greater Miami, Florida, 1980-83
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Shibata Zeshin, Wild Waves, Japan, 1878
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Andrei Tarkovsky's 'Stalker', 1979
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Gerhard Richter, Meer, 1972
Consists of two photos taken by R which he juxtaposed to create an image in which the sea is both sky and sea
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Ma Yuan, from his album of studies of the properties of water, southern Song Dynasty China, ca. 1190 - 1225 CE
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Vincent van Gogh - Marsh with Water Lilies, 1881
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Utagawa Hiroshige. Naruto Whirlpool, Awa Province. Japan, 1853.
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Katsushika Hokusai (葛飾北斎, Japan, ca. 1760–1849)
Masculine Wave - Feminine Wave
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Richard Diebenkorn, Ocean Park no. 24, 1969
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Noah's Ark, Turkish Miniature from the early 20th century
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Durga with Ganesha appear to travelers in a boat, Khaligat album, India, ca. 1880
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Sea Monsters from the NW portion of Swedish cartographer Olaus Magnus's 'Carta Marina' of 1539- 1572 (from the 1572 edition of the map)
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Gustave Le Gray
The Effect of the Sun (Le Soleil Couronné) - Normandy, 1856
The Sun at its Zenith, Ocean - Normandy, 1856
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Gustave Le Gray
Moonlight, 1856
Mediterranean Sea (Sète), 1857
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Gustave Le Gray
The Great Wave (Sète), 1857
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George Bellows, Wave, 1913
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