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| Dora Altounyan Agatha Christie seated, surrounded by Archaeological Objects ca. 1932-37 oil on canvas National Trust, Greenway, Devon |
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| Dora Altounyan Barbara Collingwood reading Casualties ca. 1914-18 oil on canvas Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Kendal, Cumbria |
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| Dora Altounyan Plein Air ca. 1907-1914 oil on canvas Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Kendal, Cumbria |
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| Vanessa Bell Angelica 1934 oil on canvas private collection |
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| Vanessa Bell 8 Fitzroy Street ca. 1930 oil on canvas Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne, Sussex |
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| Vanessa Bell Still Life by the Studio Window ca. 1950 oil on canvas Aberdeen Art Gallery, Scotland |
The Illustration – A Footnote
Months after the Muse
had come and gone across the lake of vision,
arose out of childhood the long-familiar
briefly-forgotten presaging of her image –
'The Light of Truth' – frontispiece
to 'Parables from Nature', 1894 – a picture
intending another meaning than that which it gave
(for I never read the story until now)
intending to represent folly
sinking into a black bog, but for me having meant
a mystery, of darkness, of beauty, of serious
dreaming pause and intensity
where not a will o' the wisp but
a star come to earth burned before the
closed all-seeing eyes
of that figure later seen as the Muse.
By which I learn to affirm
Truth's light at strange turns of the mind's road,
wrong turns that lead
over the border into wonder,
mistaken directions, forgotten signs
all bring the soul's travels to a place
of origin, a well
under the lake where the Muse moves.
– Denise Levertov (1961)
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| Roger Fry Edith Sitwell 1918 oil on canvas Museums Sheffield, Yorkshire |
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| Roger Fry The Ornamental Garden of No. 7 Dalmeny Avenue 1926 oil on canvas Islington Museum, London |
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| Roger Fry Copy after a Self-Portrait by Paul Cézanne 1925 oil on canvas Courtauld Gallery, London |
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| Duncan Grant Standing Woman 1930 oil on board Swindon Museum and Art Gallery, Wiltshire |
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| Duncan Grant Still Life with Bottle and Fruit 1929 oil on board Jerwood Collection, London |
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| Duncan Grant Two Ballet Dancers ca. 1925 watercolor on paper St Peter's College, University of Oxford |
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| Rex Whistler Lady Caroline Paget, later Lady Duff ca. 1938 oil on canvas National Trust, Plas Newydd, Wales |
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| Rex Whistler Charles Paget, 6th Marquess and Lady Marjorie, Marchioness of Anglesey with five of their six Children in the Music Room 1938 oil on canvas (unfinished) National Trust, Plas Newydd, Wales |
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| Rex Whistler Daye House, Wilton Park, Wiltshire, from the Riverside, with Edith Olivier standing ca. 1942 oil on board Salisbury & South Wiltshire Museum |