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| Anthony Armstrong The Artist's Studio, Garnethill 1965 oil on canvas Hunterian Art Gallery, University of Glasgow |
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| Francis Cadell The Studio before 1937 oil on canvas Lillie Art Gallery, Glasgow |
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| Frederick Cuming Studio and Dutch Easel 1970 oil on canvas Royal Academy of Arts, London |
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| William Orpen The Studio ca. 1910 oil on canvas Leeds Art Gallery, Yorkshire |
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| William Orpen My Work Room, Cassel 1917 oil on panel Imperial War Museum, London |
Evening: A Studio in Rome
The window here is hung in the west wall.
It lays on the opposite wall a square of light.
Sliced by the lop-sided slats of the broken blind,
flattened against the east wall, the light
hangs like a brilliant painting. Now, and now,
the shadow of a swallow shoots across it.
I turn around to see the birds themselves,
scores of birds, hundreds, a thousand swallows.
I try to keep a single bird. I lose it.
In all that spinning not one bird spins loose.
I lose interest and turn around to my work.
My eyes are caught again by the square of light.
I lean back in my chair and watch the picture
moving up the wall, the single birds
living out their lives in a frame of light,
until it touches the ceiling and fades out.
I turn around again and the swallows are gone.
The sun is gone. This minute Rome is dark
as only Rome is dark, as if somebody
could go out reaching toward it, and find no Rome.
– Miller Williams (1978)
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| Arthur George Walker The Artist's Studio ca. 1932 oil on canvas Royal Academy of Arts, London |
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| Arthur George Walker Cedar Studios ca. 1932 oil on canvas Royal Academy of Arts, London |
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| Arthur George Walker Tea in the Studio 1932 oil on canvas Royal Academy of Arts, London |
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| John Stanton Ward The Twins and Jack in the Studio ca. 1964 oil on canvas Royal Academy of Arts, London |
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| Anonymous Dutch Artist Artist's Studio ca. 1735-45 oil on canvas York City Art Gallery |
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| John Bulloch Souter Goddess in Portland 1931 oil on panel Aberdeen Art Gallery, Scotland |
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| Carl Seiler The Etcher 1892 oil on panel National Museum Cardiff, Wales |
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| Alec Cobbe Interior of Titian's Studio in Venice 2010 acrylic on board National Trust, Hatchlands, Surrey |
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| John Hamilton Mortimer An Academy ca. 1759-60 oil on canvas Royal Academy of Arts, London |
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| Helen Clapcott Life School at the Royal Academy ca. 1979 tempera on board Royal Academy of Arts, London |