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| William Scott Blue Still Life ca. 1957 oil on canvas Leeds Art Gallery, Yorkshire |
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| Diana Bourdon-Smith Still Life ca. 1988 oil on board Royal West of England Academy, Bristol |
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| Charles Murray The Spotted Jug 1952 oil on board Glasgow Museums |
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| Derrick Greaves Blue Still Life 1960 oil on sacking Government Art Collection, London |
from Blue Ridge
Up there on the mountain road, the fireworks
blistered and subsided, for once at eye level:
spatter of light like water flicked from the fingers;
the brief emergent pattern; and after the afterimage bled
from the night sky, a delayed and muffled thud
that must have seemed enormous down below,
the sound concomitant with the arranged
threat of fire above the bleachers.
* * *
I said my children would have loved the show.
He said we were watching youth at a great distance,
and I thought how the young
are truly boring, unvaried as they are
by the deep scar of doubt, the constant afterimage
of regret –
* * *
The evening stalls,
the fireworks grow boring at this remove.
The traffic prowling the highway at our backs,
the couples, the families scuffling on the bank
must think us strangers to each other. Or,
more likely, with the celebrated fireworks thrusting
their brilliant repeating designs above the ridge,
we simply blur into the foreground,
like the fireflies dragging among the trees
their separate, discontinuous lanterns.
– Ellen Bryant Voigt (1983)
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| Giorgio Morandi Still Life ca. 1955-59 oil on canvas Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, West Midlands |
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| Paul Richards Green Apple 1994 oil on canvas Gallery Oldham, Manchester |
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| Winifred Nicholson Easter Monday ca. 1950 oil on panel Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery, Carlisle, Cumbria |
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| Patrick Caulfield Selected Grapes 1981 acrylic and oil on canvas British Council Collection, London |
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| Vanessa Bell Interior, 8 Fitzroy Square ca. 1954 oil on canvas Royal West of England Academy, Bristol |
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| Anne Redpath The Pink Table ca. 1950 oil on board Fleming Collection, London |
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| William George Gillies Still Life, Blue and Brown 1952 oil on canvas Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow |
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| Robin Philipson Compotier of Red Apples ca. 1976 oil on canvas Fleming Collection, London |
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| Charles Maresco Pearce Garibaldi 1932 oil on canvas Southbank Centre, London |
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| Grant Clifford Still Life with Mandolin and Seashells 1966 oil on canvas Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, University of Dundee |
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| Anthony Eyton Félicité Parmentier ca. 1990 oil on canvas National Museum Cardiff (Wales) |