I and the Village
1911 · Museum of Modern Art, New York City
A green-faced peasant and a cow look at each other, and the houses behind them are upside down. Chagall grew up in Vitebsk.
★ 7.2
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Blue Horse I
1911 · Stadtische Galerie, Munich
Marc gave his animals symbolic colors, blue for the spiritual, and looked to them for an innocence he thought people had lost.
★ 7.1
Ethan Frome
1911 · 77 pages
Snowbound on a failing Massachusetts farm, Ethan Frome works beside a wife who is perpetually ill and the young cousin he has fallen for. Wharton makes poverty and duty feel like weather.
★ 7.0
The Secret Garden
1911 · 368 pages
Orphaned by cholera in India, a sour, unloved child arrives on the Yorkshire moors and finds the key to a walled garden that brings her and her bedridden cousin back to life.
★ 6.9
Yellow Cow
1911 · Guggenheim, New York City
Marc used yellow for whatever was gentle and joyful, and this cow is kicking its legs out across the hills for the pleasure of it.
★ 6.5
Pigeon with Peas (La Pigeon aux Petits Pois)
1911 · Stolen
Stolen from the Musée d'Art Moderne in Paris in 2010 and never recovered, so it survives here only as a photograph.
★ 6.3
The Innocence of Father Brown
1911 · 172 pages
A dumpy Catholic priest with an umbrella solves crimes by imagining himself into the criminal until he could have done it. Chesterton answered Sherlock Holmes with conscience rather than forensics.
★ 6.1
Under Western Eyes · 1911
Stars and Stripes Forever
1911
By Sousa's account he composed it in his head at sea, Christmas Day 1896; that piccolo obbligato does the rest.
★ 3.9
Some of These Days
1911
Tucker's maid pressed Shelton Brooks's song on her in 1910, and it stayed her signature for the rest of her career.
★ 3.7
An Introduction to Mathematics · 1911