Rembrandt Jacob blessing Ephraim and Manasseh 1656 oil on canvas Museumslandschaft Hessen Kassel |
Rembrandt Portrait of Petronella Buys 1635 oil on panel Leiden Collection, New York |
Rembrandt Risen Christ 1661 oil on canvas Alte Pinakothek, Munich |
Rembrandt Study for one of the Syndics - Volkert Jansz ca. 1662 drawing Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam |
Johannes Stradanus Ulysses and Aeolus at the Cave of the Winds ca. 1600-1605 drawing Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam |
Johannes Stradanus Ulysses and Companions blinding Polyphemus ca. 1600-1605 drawing Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam |
Johannes Stradanus Ulysses and the Cattle of Helios ca. 1600-1605 drawing Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam |
Johannes Stradanus Ulysses at the Entrance to Hades ca. 1600-1605 drawing Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam |
Wassily Kandinsky Ergänztes Braun 1935 oil on canvas Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam |
Wassily Kandinsky Large Study 1914 oil on canvas Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam |
Wassily Kandinsky Strahlenlinien 1927 oil on canvas Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam |
Wassily Kandinsky Sunday (Old Russia) 1904 oil on canvas Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam |
Co Westerik Girl with Hair in the Water 1982 oil and tempera on canvas Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam |
Co Westerik Gramophone Player 1971 oil and tempera on canvas Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam |
Co Westerik Angèle Vandenberg 1945-46 drawing Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam |
Co Westerik Hens at work 1947 drawing Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam |
For Jane Myers
Sap rises from the sodden ditch
and glues two green ears to the dead
birch twig. Perilous beauty –
and already Jane is digging out
her colored tennis shoes,
one mauve, one yellow, like large crocuses.
And by the laundromat
the Bartletts in their tidy yard –
as though it were not
wearying, wearying
to hear in the bushes
the mild harping of the breeze,
the daffodils flocking and honking –
Look how the bluet falls apart, mud
pockets the seed.
Months, years, then the dull blade of the wind.
It is spring! We are going to die!
And now April raises up her plaque of flowers
and the heart
expands to admit its adversary.
– Louise Glück (1975)