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| William Merritt Chase Still Life - Fish ca. 1900 oil on canvas Museum of Fine Arts, Boston |
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| William Merritt Chase Still Life - Fish before 1908 oil on canvas Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Adelaide Cole Chase Elizabeth Lawrence Fiske (Mrs George Hitchcock) ca. 1900 oil on canvas Museum of Fine Arts, Boston |
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| Herbert James Draper The Golden Fleece 1904 oil on canvas Cartwright Hall Art Gallery, Bradford, West Yorkshire |
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| Edmund Tarbell Girl Reading 1909 oil on canvas Museum of Fine Arts, Boston |
In the Reading-Room of the British Museum
Praised be the moon of books! that doth above
A world of men, the fallen Past behold,
And fill the spaces else so void and cold
To make a very heaven again thereof;
As when the sun is set behind a grove,
And faintly unto nether ether rolled,
All night his whiter image and his mould
Grows beautiful with looking on her love.
Thou therefore, moon of so divine a ray,
Lend to our steps both fortitude and light!
Feebly along a venerable way
They climb the infinite, or perish quite;
Nothing are days and deeds to such as they,
While in this liberal house thy face is bright.
– Louise Imogen Guiney (1861-1920)
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| Vilhelm Hammershøi Interior - Sunlight on the Floor 1909 oil on canvas Museum of Fine Arts, Boston |
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| Cecilia Beaux Brother and Sister Charles Sumner Bird and Edith Bird 1907 oil on canvas Museum of Fine Arts, Boston |
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| Frederick Carl Frieseke The Yellow Room ca. 1910 oil on canvas Museum of Fine Arts, Boston |
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| Joseph Southall At Cromer, Norfolk 1900 tempera on board Victoria Art Gallery, Bath |
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| Jan van Beers Portrait of a Man ca. 1910 oil on panel Museum of Fine Arts, Boston |
Witness
Because the dark suit is worn it is worn warm
with a black tie
and a kiss at the head of the stairs
When you hear the dark suit rip
on the heart's curb the hurt is big
rose flesh caught on the orange woman's buttons
As you talk metropole monotone
antique intelligence
as you dress wounds by peyotl looming the boulevards
women hunt their children from you
who look out
lit still inside of a dark suit
– Philip Lamantia (1927-2005)
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| Julius Le Blanc Stewart Portrait of Eugenia White Blake 1908 oil on canvas Walters Art Museum, Baltimore |
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| John White Alexander Study in Black and Green ca. 1906 oil on canvas Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| George Luks The Wrestlers 1905 oil on canvas Museum of Fine Arts, Boston |
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| Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Reclining Nude 1909 oil on canvas Museum of Fine Arts, Boston |