Elsa Schiaparelli Sweater 1927 wool knit Philadelphia Museum of Art |
Elsa Schiaparelli Sweater 1948 wool jersey and monkey fur Philadelphia Museum of Art |
Elsa Schiaparelli Evening Coat 1939 silk faille embroidered in gold Philadelphia Museum of Art |
Elsa Schiaparelli Evening Gown ca. 1932 silk velvet National Gallery of Australia, Canberra |
Édouard Manet The Monet Family in their garden at Argenteuil 1874 oil on canvas Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
Édouard Manet Portrait of Madame Édouard Manet at Bellevue 1880 oil on canvas Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
Édouard Manet Portrait of a Lady ca. 1879 oil on panel National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
Édouard Manet The Dead Toreador ca. 1864 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
Bertel Thorvaldsen Bust of Youth ca. 1840 plaster cast (head from figure in marble group) Trondheim Kunstmuseum, Norway |
Bertel Thorvaldsen Lord Byron 1829 marble Trinity College, Cambridge |
Bertel Thorvaldsen Risen Christ ca. 1838-44 plaster statuette (formerly owned by writer George Eliot) Herbert Art Gallery & Museum, Coventry, West Midlands |
Bertel Thorvaldsen Shepherd Boy with Dog ca. 1820-40 marble Waddesdon Manor, Buckinghamshire |
Hendrik Nicolaas Werkman Conversation 1942 stencil print and letterpress Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam |
Hendrik Nicolaas Werkman The Doctor's Visit (Kafka's House) 1938 oil on canvas Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam |
Hendrik Nicolaas Werkman The Language of the Birds 1943 template-print and stamp-print Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam |
Hendrik Nicolaas Werkman The Messianic Expectation 1943 template-print Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam |
Scraps
We had codes
In our house. Like
Locks; they said
We never lock
Our door to you.
And never did.
Their bed
Stood, spotless as a tub . . .
I passed it every day
For twenty years, until
I went my way. My chore
Was marking time. Gluing
Was marking time. Gluing
Relics into books I saw
Myself at seven learning
Distance at my mother's knee.
My favorite snapshot of my
Father shows him pushing forty
And lyrical
Above his firstborn's empty face.
The usual miracle.
– Louise Glück