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- Ada, Countess of Lovelace (Doris Langley Moore, 1977)
- Adolf Hitler (Apr. 20, 1889 – Apr. 30, 1945) – referenced subtextually, but innumerably
- After the Bath (Paul Peel, 1890)
- The Ahwahnee Hotel (1927, Gilbert Stanley Underwood, Yosemite Valley, California) – interiors used as basis for the Overlook
- Alcedo Ispida (John Gould, William Matthew Hart, 1862-1873)
- Alcoholics Anonymous (1935, possibly incorrect–there’s a shape seen twice around the Torrance living room that looks like their logo)
- All Work and No Play Makes Jack a Dull Boy (Appeared in James Howell’s Proverbs in English, Italian, French and Spanish, 1659; Maria Edgeworth’s Harry and Lucy Concluded, 1825; Karl Marx’s Das Kapital, 1867; James Joyce’s Araby, 1914; the Laurel and Hardy film Sons of the Desert, 1933; and the 1957 film Bridge on the River Kwai; Jack Kerouac’s Big Sur, 1962)
- Alex Colville (Aug. 24, 1920)
- Game: American Wheels
- Angell, Pearl and Little God (Winston Graham (Jan. 1, 1970)
- Anonymous Hood River Valley Postcard (1960s)
- Antique Navajo Weaving Design: Yei Pictorial (Unknown, 1940s-’50s)
- Arpeggio (Frederick Horsman Varley, 1932-1937)
- Autumn photo of Mt. Hood (Glenn E. Walthall, 1967?)
- B&W Face Collage (Unknown artist, unknown date of origin)
- Baby Leopard on a Rock (Ralph Thompson, 1970s)
- Similar: Baie St. Paul (AY Jackson)
- The Battle of Sisters Creek/Longue Pointe/The Battle of the Barn (Louise-Amélie Panet-Berczy, 1839)
- Similar: Bay of Islands (Franklin Carmichael)
- The Beach Girls, John D. Macdonald (1959)
- Beaver Swamp – originally Evening, Algoma (Lawren Harris, 1920-1923)
- Blackbird (John Gould, Henry Constantine Richter, 1862-1873(?))
- Black Odyssey (Nathan Irvin Huggins, Jan. 1, 1977)
- Bog oak art piece (Untold thousands of years old)
- Bomber Pilot: A Memoir of World War II (Philip Ardery, 1978)
- Bombo (Al Jolson, et al. 1921)
- The Boo (Pat Conroy, 1970)
- Boy and Girl Knitting (Unknown artist, unknown date of origin)
- Brewster McCloud (Dec. 5, 1970)
- Similar: Brittany Spaniel (Robert Abbett)
- Similar: Broughton Island (Doris McCarthy)
- Bugs Bunny (April 30, 1938) – seen on Danny’s shirt, and stuffed toy seen in lobby — character referenced by multiple characters
- Game: Bull Riders?
- Burda Moden (Apr. 1978)
- Businessweek (September 1929 — uncertain volume)
- Caesar: A Biography (Christian Meier, 1969)
- Game: Candyland (1949)
- A Captive of Time (Olga Ivanskaya, 1978)
- Car and Driver (Mar. 1978)
- Carl Yastrzemski (Aug. 22, 1939) – associated with Louisville slugger
- Carson City (June 13, 1952)
- Catch-22 (Joseph Heller, Nov. 10, 1961)
- The Catcher in the Rye (JD Salinger, July 16, 1951 – serial ‘45-‘46)
- Charles Dickens (Feb. 7, 1812)
- Chief Bear Paw (Nicholas de Grandmaison, 1931-1978)
- The Chimes (December 16th, 1844)
- China and America: The Search for a New Relationship (William J. Barnds (ed), Aug. 1, 1977)
- China Flight (Pearl S. Buck, April 1945) – Possibly Wrong
- China, Oil, and Asia, Conflict Ahead? (Selig S. Harrison, Jan 1, 1977)
- A Christmas Carol (Charles Dickens, December 19th, 1843)
- Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Steven Spielberg, Leslie Waller, Jan. 1, 1977)
- Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Nov. 16, 1977)
- Colorado Landscape on a Wood Section (Franklyn Popham Cattermole)
- Colorado Tourism Posters (Unknown artist, unknown date of origin)
- Come Out, Come Out, Wherever You Are (Jun. 29, 1974)
- Commoners Crown, Steeleye Span (1975)
- Cooper’s Hawk (James Fenwick Lansdowne, 1974)
- The Courts of Europe: Politics, Patronage, and Royalty 1400-1800 (AG Dickens, Jan. 1, 1977)
- The Cowboy (Frederic Remington, 1902)
- Cram’s Superior Map of Colorado (George F. Cram, 1915)
- The Cricket on the Hearth (December 20, 1845)
- Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1866)
- Crying Boy (Dorothy Marie Oxborough, 194?+)
- Similar: Dachshund sketch (Charles Tunnicliffe)
- Dalli! Dalli! (Lobby, unknown episode, 1972-1979)
- Similar: Dancing Bears (William Holbrook Beard)
- Game: Darts and Billiards
- Dasher: The Roots and the Rising of Jimmy Carter (Jan. 1st, James Wooten)
- The Deadly Streets, Harlan Ellison (1958 – possibly inaccurate)
- The Death Dealers (Mickey Spillane, 1966)
- The Death of Woman Wang (Jonathan Spence, 1978)
- December Afternoon (Hugh Monahan, 1969)
- De Natura Sonoris No. 1, Krzysztof Penderecki (April 7, 1966)
- De Natura Sonoris No. 2 (Krzysztof Penderecki, December 3, 1971)
- Denver Olympics Poster (Gene Hoffman – 1976 — uncertain, but very likely)
- The Denver Post (1892)
- Similar: Derwentwater (Roland Stead)
- Di-Acro Flier (Unknown date)
- Dies Irae, Thomas of Celano, redone by Wendy Carlos (13th Century, possibly older)
- Discipline and Punish: The Birth of a Prison (Michel Foucault, 1975)
- Dog, Boy, and St. John River (Alex Colville, 1958)
- The Donner Party (May 1846 – February 1847) – mentioned first by Wendy to Jack and Danny
- The Door (Mary Roberts Reinhart, 1930)
- Dopey – Snow White and the Seven Dwarves (December 21, 1937)
- Dorothy Oxborough (1922)
- The Dream/Awakening of Jacob (Krzysztof Penderecki, August 14, 1974)
- Dr. Nyet (Ted Mark, 1966)
- Dwight D. Eisenhower (Oct. 14, 1890 – Mar. 28, 1969) – the Hal and Charley show mentions an Eisenhower tunnel being closed
- Easy Rider (Jul. 14, 1969)
- Eleanor Marx (Yvonne Kapp, Jun. 1977)
- Emergency! (1972-1979)
- English Springer Spaniel (Edwin Megargee, 1940s-50s) – uncertain but likely variant on confirmed original
- The Eruption of Vesuvius in 1774 (Jacob Philipp Hackert, 1774(?))
- Field and Stream (Jan. 1978)
- Flock of Loons (or Untitled) (Norval Morrisseau, 196?+)
- Four Rossettis: A Victorian Biography (Stanley Weintraub, 1978)
- The Fourth Ghost Book, James Turner (ed) (1968)
- Fox Resting (Ralph Thompson, 1960s)
- Game: Fuzzy Felt Farm
- Gingerbread Men (16th Century (c. 1558) – Later, May 1875)
- Glamour (Magazine) (Apr. 1939)
- Glamour (May, 1978)
- Glaucous-Winged Gull (James Fenwick Lansdowne, 1973)
- The Gold Rush (Jun. 26, 1925 – possibly a stretch)
- Goofy (May 25, 1932) – doll/puppet seen in Danny’s Boulder bedroom
- The Great Earth Mother (Norval Morrisseau, 1976)
- Great Lounge, stained glass windows (Jeanette Dryer Spencer, 1927)
- The Great Spectacular (Graham Greene, Jan. 26, 1978)
- The Group of Seven (1920-1933) – group of Canadian painters whose work figures largely
- The Harlem Globetrotters (Sept. 12, 1970)
- Hansel and Gretel (Dec. 20, 1812)
- Holding On (Mervyn Jones, Jan. 1, 1973)
- Home (Henry Hall and the Gleneagles, 1932+)
- Horse and Train (Alex Colville, 1954)
- Hotel & Motel Red Book (American Hotel & Motel Association, 1973?)
- Hound in Field (Alex Colville, 1958)
- The Hynek UFO Report (Dec. 1977)
- Illness as Metaphor (Susan Sontag, 1978)
- Instant Karma (Plastic Ono Band, Feb. 1970) – album that inspired the film/novel’s name
- In This House of Brede (Rumer Godden, Jan. 1, 1969)
- Irene Reid Promotional Picture (1975?)
- Irish Setter (Dr. Avery Vaughan, 1978?)
- It’s All Forgotten Now, (Al Bowlly, Ray Noble and his Orchestra, Sept. 26, 1934)
- Jacob’s Ladder lookalike art (William Blake, 1805?)
- James at an Awkward Age (Veronica Geng, May 18, 1978)
- Jeeves (1915)
- Jimmy Carter (Oct. 1, 1924)
- Johnny Carson (Oct. 23, 1925) – referenced by Jack
- The Johnson House, Hanover (Carl Schaefer, 1932-42)
- Julius Caesar (Jul. 12-13, 100 BC – Mar. 15, 44 BC)
- Julius Erving (Feb. 22, 1950) – seen on poster in Overlook radio room
- Jumbo Tiddledy Winks (1963 – copyright goes back to the 20s for standard)
- Kaisergebirge, Tirol (Kaiser Mountains, Tyrol)? (Alois Arnegger?, 1900s-1910s?)
- Kanon (Krzysztof Penderecki, Sept. 21, 1962)
- Keep America Beautiful Ad (1971) – referenced (maybe) by signs on the garbage cans outside the Overlook
- KHOW (Hal and Charlie, 1964) – radio station, heard by Hallorann
- Similar: Kildeer Plovers (JF Lansdowne)
- The Killing Frost (Max Catto, 1950 – possibly a stretch)
- King Oil (Max Catto, Jan. 1, 1970)
- Krzysztof Penderecki (Nov. 23, 1933)
- Leon Battista Alberti (Franco Borsi, 1978)
- Log Hut on the St. Maurice (Cornelius Krieghoff, 1862)
- The Long Work of Liberty (George Konrad, Jan. 26, 1978)
- Lontano (György Ligeti, 1967)
- Loving (Henry Green, 1945)
- Maid of the Mist Under the Horseshoe Falls Postcard (1959)
- Makah Returning in Their War Canoes (Paul Kane, 1845-1859)
- Maligne Lake, Jasper Park (Lawren Harris, 1924)
- Mandarin Ducks (Basil Ede, 1958-1979)
- The Manipulator (Diane Cilento,1967)
- A Man of Nootka Sound (John Webber, 1784)
- MASH (Richard Hooker, 1968 – fairly certain)
- The Masque of the Red Death (Edgar Allen Poe, May 1842)
- Masquerade (Jack Hylton and His Orchestra, Sept. 23 1932)
- Mickey and Minnie Mouse (Nov. 18, 1928) – stickers on Danny’s door, and Mickey appears again on a sweater
- Midnight, the Stars and You (Al Bowlly, Ray Noble and his Orchestra, 1934)
- Mill on the Cliff/Cliffside Mill (Nicholas Hornyansky, 1930s-1950s)
- Mist Fantasy, Sand River, Algoma (JEH MacDonald, 1920)
- Montreal from the Mountain (William Henry Bartlett, 1839-1842)
- Similar: Mont St. Michel (Emmanuel Lansyer)
- Moon and Cow (Alex Colville, 1963)
- Mt. Hood postcard (Francis Kies, 1960s)
- Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta (Béla Bartók, Sept. 7, 1936)
- Muskox Illustration (Elizabeth McClelland, 1970s?)
- My Name Is Asher Lev (Chaim Potok, Mar. 12, 1972)
- Mystery 237 artworks (2) (Unknown artists, dates of origin)
- Mystery Banner (Torrance apartment)
- Mystery BJ Well Art (4) (Unknown artists, dates of origin)
- Mystery Boiler Room Nudes (8) (Boiler Room)
- Mystery Boulder Books (4) (Boulder Apartment)
- Mystery Denver Flood Poster (Games Room, 1912?)
- Mystery Europe Book (Boulder Apartment, Miami Apartment)
- Mystery Golf Like the Greats Towel/Paper (Boulder Kitchen)
- Mystery Group of Seven Trio (Games Room)
- Mystery Kitchen Art (Kitchen)
- Mystery Lang Shining banner (Torrance apartment)
- Mystery Lansdowne painting (Susie’s office)
- Mystery Megargee-style Hare (near 237)
- Mystery Monahan (Lobby, 2nd Entrance–might also be by Sir Peter Scott)
- Mystery Shadow Monster (Lobby Foyer–possibly by Salvador Dali)
- Mystery Suite 3 art (4) (Unknown Artist, dates of origin)
- Mystery Tatânga Mânî Portrait (Lounge, possibly by Dorothy Oxborough)
- Mystery Tunnicliffe painting (Susie’s office, outside 237)
- The Mythical Life of D. H. Lawrence (Stephen Spender, Jan. 26, 1978)
- Naked Lunch, William S. Burroughs (1959 — possibly inaccurate)
- Napolitano Postcard with Augustus Caesar Statue (????, 1970s?-1st century BCE)
- National Western Stock Show & Rodeo – Denver Post Ad (197?)
- Native American Girl Child (Dorothy Marie Oxborough, 194?+)
- Native Child (Dorothy Marie Oxborough, 194?+)
- Native Girl with Pigtails (Dorothy Marie Oxborough, 194?+)
- Native Pastel (Dorothy Marie Oxborough, 194?+)
- Navajo/Apache Wall Rugs (5) (Unknown craftsperson, date of origin)
- Newswatch 10 (Glenn Rinker, Ann Bishop and Walter Cronice, 1979-80) – news program watched by Hallorann
- New York Jew (Alfred Kazin, 1978)
- The New York Review of Books (February 1, 1963)
- Northern River (Tom Thompson, 1914-15)
- One By One (Claude du Boc, Jan. 1975)
- One By One (Stomu Yamash’ta’s East Wind, 1974)
- Orange Wednesday, Leslie Thomas (1967)
- Oskar Political Cartoon Posters (Hans Bierbrauer (AKA Oskar), sometime between 1948-1980; seen in Susie’s office, radio room, snowcat garage)
- Outdoor Life (Early 1978)
- Similar: Pattern Littoral (Robert Genn)
- Paysage d’hiver, Laval (Winter Landscape, Laval) (Cornelius Krieghoff, 1849)
- Peter Pan (JM Barrie, 1902) – referenced subtextually
- Phonebooks (Probably 1978-79, but not clear)
- Playgirl (Jan. 1, 1978)
- Polymorphia (Krzysztof Penderecki, April 16, 1962)
- Portland, Maine (1632) – mentioned by Jack to Lloyd
- Portland, Oregon (1845) – mentioned by Jack to Lloyd
- Portrait of a Fox: Alert (Ralph Thompson, 1960s)
- Postcard of Ana Cross/Ralph Cross (????, 1970s?-Medieval times)
- The Professors: A Survey of a Survey (Serge Lang, May 18, 1978)
- Pyrrhula Vulgaris (John Gould and Henry Constantie Richter, 1837)
- Red Maple (A. Y. Jackson, 1914)
- Russia in Original Photographs 1860-1920 (Marvin Lyons, 1978)
- Scientific American (Mar. 1978)
- Game: Sewing Cards
- The Shining (Stephen King, Jan. 28, 1977)
- Sirens and Lights (Unknown author, date of origin)
- SKI BROaDMOOR (Herbert Bayer, 1969)
- Snakes and Ladders (2nd century AD)
- Snoopy (October 4, 1950)
- Snow White (Dec. 20, 1812)
- The Solemn Land (JEH MacDonald, 1921)
- Spring photo of Mt. Hood (Francis Kies, 1960s)
- Squaresville: The Teen’s Guide to Adult Behaviour, Jan and Stan Berenstain (1965)
- Starlight: Indian Papoose (Nicholas de Grandmaison, 1931-1978)
- The State of the Union (Sheldon S. Wolin, May 18, 1978)
- Steamboat Ski Poster (Jerry Brimacomb, 1973)
- Still Life of Flowers in a Jug (“after” Nadia Benois, 1920s-1950s?)
- Stop! Look! And Hasten! (August 14, 1954)
- Stormy Weather, Georgian Bay (F. H. Varley, 1921)
- Similar: Study of a Girl’s Head (Thomas Eakins)
- Summer of ’42 (April 18, 1971)
- Summer photo of Mt. Hood (Franklin Lee Silkey, 1960s?)
- Supernatural Dream (The Old School Inc., 1973)
- Switzerland: The Awful Truth (Jean Zeigler, 1979 – likely inaccurate)
- Tatânga Mânî (Walking Buffalo, AKA George McLean) (Mar. 20, 1871-Dec. 26 1967)
- Teeny Weeny Adventures (1973 – possibly earlier as well)
- Theatrum Orbis Terrarum (Theatre of the World) (Abraham Ortelius, 1570s)
- Three Little Pigs (June 19, 1890 – first print version was in the 1840s, fairy tale itself thought to go back further)
- Thriller (Apr. 10, 1973)
- Game: Tiddlywinks
- Tiger of the Snows (Tenzing Norgay and John Ramsey Ullman, 1955)
- Timberline Lodge (1936, Mount Hood, Oregon)
- Timbuktu (5th Century BC) – mentioned by Jack to Lloyd
- A Time of Gifts (Patrick Leigh Fermor, 1977)
- To Itch His Own (1958)
- Tolstoy Remembered (Tatyana Tolstoy, 1975)
- Tom & Jerry (Feb. 10, 1940 – Sept. 8, 1967)
- The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (Oct. 1, 1962)
- Tony the Tiger (1952) – food mascot
- Touch of Autumn (Gerard Curtis Delano, c. 1930)
- The Tower (Richard Martin Stern, 1973)
- The Tower of Babel (Pieter Bruegel the Elder, 1563)
- Transatlantic Blues (Wilfrid Sheed, 1978)
- Trapeze (May 30, 1956 – Possibly a stretch)
- Trapper’s Camp (AKA Le campment du trappeur) (Clarence Gagnon, 1931)
- Travel (Ullman’s desk – uncertain origin)
- Travel Holiday (1977 – uncertain volume)
- True Confessions (John Gregory Dunne, 1977)
- True Grit (Jun. 11, 1969 – possibly a stretch)
- Turdus Pilaris (John Gould and Henry Constantine Richter, 1837)
- Game: Ultimate (1968)
- Unidentified Vesuvius painting (Unknown Artist, 1890s)
- The United Front: The TUC and the Russians 1923-1928 (Daniel F. Calhoun, Jul. 8, 1976)
- US Forest Service (Feb. 1, 1905)
- Utrenja, Ewangelia and Kanon Paschy (Krzysztof Penderecki, 1970 and 1971)
- Valentine’s Postcard of Niagara Falls (1907-1915)
- The Vela Incident, news article (Sept. 23, 1979)
- The White Man’s Burden (Rudyard Kipling, Feb. 4, 1899)
- Why Israel Should Settle Now (Guido Goldman, May 18, 1978)
- Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner (Sept. 17, 1949)
- Will I Be On Television? (Ladislav Hejdanek, May 18, 1978)
- Winnie-the-Pooh (February, 1924)
- Winter photo of Mt. Hood (Mike Roberts, c. 1960s)
- The Wish Child (Ina Seidel, 1930)
- Woman and Terrier (Alex Colville, 1963)
- A Woman of Oonalashka (John Webber, 1784)
- A Woman of Prince William Sound (John Webber, 1778)
- Woodstock (April 4, 1967)
- The Works of William Shakespeare (1589-1614) (Julius Caesar – 1599, possibly also The Tempest – 1610-1611)
- Young Jethro (Roy Clews, Jan. 28, 1977)
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