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| John Lavery The Green Coat 1926 oil on canvas Ulster Museum, Belfast |
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| Christopher Williams The Red Dress 1917 oil on canvas National Museum Cardiff (Wales) |
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| Walter Sickert The Yellow Sleeve 1903-1904 oil on canvas New Walk Museum and Art Gallery, Leicester |
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| Augustus John The Red Feather ca. 1911 oil on board Ulster Museum, Belfast |
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| Matthew Smith The Black Hat ca. 1937 oil on canvas Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool |
from My Hat
Mother said if I wore this hat
I should be certain to get off with the right sort of chap
Well look where I am now, on a desert island
With so far as I can see no one at all on hand
I know what has happened though I suppose Mother wouldn't see
This hat being so strong has completely run away with me
I had the feeling it was beginning to happen the moment I put it on
What a moment that was as I rose up, I rose up like a flying swan
As strong as a swan too, why see how far my hat has flown me away
It took us a night to come and then a night and a day
And all the time the swan wing in my hat waved beautifully
Ah, I thought, How this hat becomes me.
– Stevie Smith (ca. 1957)
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| Bernard Meninsky The Purple Dress ca. 1930-40 oil on canvas Doncaster Museum and Art Gallery, Yorkshire |
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| Philip Connard The Lilac Dress ca. 1926 oil on canvas The Potteries Museum and Art Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent |
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| Robert Hope The Silken Gown ca. 1925 oil on canvas Paisley Museum and Art Galleries, Scotland |
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| Mark Gertler The Bokhara Coat 1920 oil on canvas Touchstones Rochdale, Lancashire |
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| Stanley Cursiter Reclining Lady in White ca. 1925 oil on panel Fleming Collection, London |
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| William Bruce Ellis Ranken Portrait of a Lady in Green 1928 oil on canvas Usher Gallery, Lincoln |
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| Ivor Williams Woman with a Red Necktie ca. 1950 oil on canvas Aberystwyth University School of Art Museum and Galleries, Wales |
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| Anthony Devas At the Couturier 1955 oil on canvas Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston, Lancashire |
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| Marie Louise von Motesiczky At the Dressmaker's 1930 oil on canvas Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge |
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| Lorna Graves Red Skirt ca. 1978 oil on board Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery, Carlisle, Cumbria |