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| John Singer Sargent Sketch of Balustrade, San Domenico e Sisto, Rome ca. 1907 drawing Harvard Art Museums |
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| John Singer Sargent Sketch of Balustrade, San Domenico e Sisto, Rome ca. 1907 drawing Harvard Art Museums |
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| John Singer Sargent Group in the Simplon ca. 1911 watercolor Harvard Art Museums |
Memoir of Sergio O. . . .
My feet have never been comfortable
Since I pulled them out of the Black Sea
and came to your foul country
what fatal day did I dry them off for
travel loathesome travel to a world
even older than the one I grew up in
what fatal day meanwhile back in France
they were stumbling towards the Bastille
and the Princesse de Lamballe was
shuddering as shudderingly as I
with a lot less to lose I still hated
to move sedentary as a roach of Tiflis
never again to go swimming in the nude
publicly little did I know how
awfulness could reach perfection abroad
I even thought I would see a Red Indian
all I ever saw was lipstick everything cov-
ered with grass or shrouds pretty
shrouds shot with silver and plasma
even the chairs are upholstered to a
smothering perfection of inanity
and there are no chandeliers and there
are no gates to the parks so you don't
know whether you're going in them or
coming out of them that's not relaxing
and so you can't really walk all you can
do is sit and drink coffee and brood
over the lost leaves and refreshing scum
of Georgia Georgia of my heritage
and dismay meanwhile back in my old
country they are renaming everything so
I can't even tell any more which ballet
company I am remembering with so much
pain and the same thing has started
here American Avenue Park Avenue South
Avenue of Chester Conklin Binnie Barnes
Boulevard Avenue of Toby Wing Barbara
Nichols Street where am I what is it
I can't even find a pond small enough
to drown in without being ostentatious
you are ruining your awful country and me
it is not new to do this it is terribly
democratic and ordinary and tired
– Frank O'Hara (1961), published in Lunch Poems (1964)
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| John Singer Sargent Study of Benvenuto Cellini's statue in the Loggia dei Lanzi, Florence Perseus Slaying Medusa ca. 1909-1910 drawing Harvard Art Museums |
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| John Singer Sargent Study of Benvenuto Cellini's statue in the Loggia dei Lanzi, Florence Perseus Slaying Medusa ca. 1909-1910 drawing Harvard Art Museums |
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| John Singer Sargent Study of Giambologna's statue in the Loggia dei Lanzi, Florence Rape of the Sabine Women ca. 1909-1910 drawing Harvard Art Museums |
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| John Singer Sargent Study for Prometheus Museum of Fine Arts decorations (Boston) ca. 1916-21 oil on canvas Harvard Art Museums |
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| John Singer Sargent Figure-study for Museum of Fine Arts decorations (Boston) 1922-24 drawing Harvard Art Museums |
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| John Singer Sargent Figure-study for Museum of Fine Arts decorations (Boston) 1922-24 drawing Harvard Art Museums |
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| John Singer Sargent Figure-study for Museum of Fine Arts decorations (Boston) 1922-24 drawing Harvard Art Museums |
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| John Singer Sargent Figure-study for Museum of Fine Arts decorations (Boston) 1922-24 drawing Harvard Art Museums |
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| John Singer Sargent Figure-study before 1925 drawing Harvard Art Museums |
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| John Singer Sargent Figure-studies for Widener Library decorations 1921-22 drawing Harvard Art Museums |
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| John Singer Sargent Figure-study for Widener Library decorations 1921-22 drawing Harvard Art Museums |