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| Andrew Gibbon Williams Figures 1983 acrylic on paper McManus Gallery, Dundee |
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| Gillian Ayres Aeolus 1987 oil on canvas Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool |
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| Glenn Brown Decline and Fall 1995 oil on canvas Southbank Centre, London |
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| Oskar Kokoschka Market in Tunis ca. 1928-29 oil on canvas Courtauld Gallery, London |
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| Graham Sutherland Study for Origins of Land 1950 bodycolour, graphite and crayon on board Courtauld Gallery, London |
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| Ivon Hitchens A Sybilline Courtyard 1974 oil on canvas Courtauld Gallery, London |
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| Kit Barker Causeway 1962 oil on canvas Yale Center for British Art |
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| William Nicholson The Hundred Jugs 1916 oil on canvas Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool |
And Soul
My mother died one summer –
the wettest in the records of the state.
Crops rotted in the west.
Checked tablecloths dissolved in back gardens.
Empty deck chairs collected rain.
As I took my way to her
through traffic, through lilacs dripping blackly
behind houses
and on curbsides, to pay her
the last tribute of a daughter, I thought of something
I remembered
I heard once, that the body is, or is
said to be, almost all
water and as I turned southward, that ours is
a city of it,
one in which
every single day the elements begin
a journey towards each other that will never,
given our weather,
fail –
the ocean visible in the edges cut by it,
cloud color reaching into air,
the Liffey storing one and summoning the other,
salt greeting the lack of it at the North Wall and,
as if that wasn't enough, all of it
ending up almost every evening
inside our speech –
coast canal ocean river stream and now
mother and I drove on and although
the mind is unreliable in grief, at
the next cloudburst it almost seemed
they could be shades of each other,
the way the body is
of every one of them and now
they were on the move again – fog into mist,
mist into sea spray and both into the oily glaze
that lay on the railings of
the house she was dying in
as I went inside.
– Eavan Boland (2007)
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| Gordon Stewart Cameron The Red Sofa 1958 oil on board McManus Gallery, Dundee |
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| Charles James McCall Making the Bed 1964 oil on board Hunterian Art Gallery, University of Glasgow |
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| James Fitton Café ca. 1955 oil on board Herbert Art Gallery and Museum, Coventry |
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| William Roberts Christ driving the Money Changers from the Temple 1925 oil on canvas Ferens Art Gallery, Kingston-upon-Hull |
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| Robert Anning Bell Battle of Flowers before 1933 watercolour on paper Royal Watercolour Society, London |
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| Glyn Philpot Richard I leaving England for the Crusades, 1189 1925-27 oil on canvas Parliamentary Art Collection, London |
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| Carel Weight Escape of the Zebra from the Zoo during an Air Raid ca. 1940-45 oil on panels Manchester Art Gallery |