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| Ellsworth Kelly Red Green Blue 1964 oil on canvas Walker Art Center, Minneapolis |
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| Ellsworth Kelly Red Orange White Green Blue 1968 oil on canvas Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California |
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| Ellsworth Kelly Light Blue with Orange 1964-65 screenprint Wichita Art Museum, Kansas |
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| Ellsworth Kelly Spectrum 1973 screenprint National Gallery of Australia, Canberra |
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| George Platt Lynes Edith Sitwell ca. 1950 gelatin silver print Art Institute of Chicago |
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| George Platt Lynes Gertrude Stein ca. 1946 gelatin silver print National Gallery of Australia, Canberra |
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| George Platt Lynes Paul Cadmus ca, 1942 gelatin silver print Dallas Museum of Art |
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| George Platt Lynes W.H. Auden ca. 1940 gelatin silver print National Gallery of Australia, Canberra |
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| Helen Maudsley Artistic Lady 1956 gouache on paper National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne |
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| Helen Maudsley The Evening Creatures ca. 1955 gouache on paper National Gallery of Australia, Canberra |
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| Helen Maudsley The Listening Man 1956 gouache on paper National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne |
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| Helen Maudsley Untitled 1951 gouache on paper National Gallery of Australia, Canberra |
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| Eileen Mayo Design for Ex Libris - Julian Beale ca. 1950 gouache on paper National Gallery of Australia, Canberra |
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| Eileen Mayo Ex Libris - Howard Beale ca. 1950 lithograph National Gallery of Australia, Canberra |
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| Eileen Mayo Ornamental Crab 1966 gouache on paper National Gallery of Australia, Canberra |
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| Eileen Mayo Ornamental Fish 1966 gouache on paper National Gallery of Australia, Canberra |
from The Quest
In villages from which their childhoods came
Seeking Necessity, they had been taught
Necessity by nature is the same
No matter how or by whom it be sought.
Seeking Necessity, they had been taught
Necessity by nature is the same
No matter how or by whom it be sought.
The city, though, assumed no such belief,
But welcomed each as if he came alone,
The nature of Necessity like grief
But welcomed each as if he came alone,
The nature of Necessity like grief
Exactly corresponding to his own.
And offered them so many, every one
Found some temptation fit to govern him,
And settled down to master the whole craft
Of being nobody; sat in the sun
Found some temptation fit to govern him,
And settled down to master the whole craft
Of being nobody; sat in the sun
During the lunch-hour round the fountain rim,
And watched the country kids arrive, and laughed.
And watched the country kids arrive, and laughed.
– W.H. Auden (1940)