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| Edward Wadsworth Gasteropoda 1927 tempera on panel Ulster Museum, Belfast |
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| Ernest Townsend Marsh Marigolds ca. 1920 oil on canvas Derby Museum and Art Gallery |
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| John Bulloch Souter Still Life with Purple Tulips and a Figurine ca. 1925 oil on board Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen |
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| Matthew Smith Large Decoration ca. 1925 oil on canvas Guildhall Art Gallery, London |
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| William Nicholson Cinerarias ca. 1928 oil on panel Ulster Museum, Belfast |
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| Paul Nash Souvenir of Florence 1929 oil on canvas Yale Center for British Art |
Prologue
They darken. In the sky over Florence,
the oblong clouds swell and darken.
And hailstones lift back through the updrafts,
thickening, darkening, until, swollen as bird eggs,
they drop to the cobbled streets.
Horses! the child Galileo thinks, then
peeks through the doorway
to the shock of ten thousand icy hooves.
At his back, his father is tuning violins,
and because there is nothing sharper at hand
Galileo saws through a captured hailstone
with a length of E-string,
the white globe opening slowly, and the pattern inside
already bleeding its frail borders.
Layers and layers of ice –
Like what? Onion pulp? Cypress rings?
If only the room were colder, and the eye
finer. If only the hand were faster,
and the blade sharper, and firmer,
and without a hint of song . . .
– Linda Bierds (2008)
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| Archibald McGlashan Still Life 1925 oil on canvas Ulster Museum, Belfast |
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| Georgina Moutray Kyle Beauty and the Beasts ca. 1927 oil on canvas, mounted on panel Ulster Museum, Belfast |
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| Leslie Hunter The Green Bowl ca. 1920 oil on canvas Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow |
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| Frances Hodgkins Still Life - Eggs, Tomatoes and Mushrooms ca. 1929 oil on canvas Brighton and Hove Museums and Art Galleries |
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| Charles Ginner The Winged Faun 1926 oil on canvas Ferens Art Gallery, Kingston-upon-Hull |
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| William George Gillies Still Life with White Jug ca. 1920 oil on canvas Royal Scottish Academy of Art and Architecture, Edinburgh |
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| Roger Fry Church at Ramatuelle 1922 oil on canvas Manchester Art Gallery |
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| Stanley Cursiter A Glass of Milk 1923 oil on canvas City Art Centre, Edinburgh |
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| Philip Connard Still Life with Crockery ca. 1920-25 oil on canvas Ashmolean Museum, Oxford |