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Frederick Carl Frieseke The Basket of Flowers ca. 1913-17 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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Frederick Carl Frieseke The Bird-Cage ca. 1910 oil on canvas New Britain Museum of American Art, Connecticut |
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Frederick Carl Frieseke In the Boudoir ca. 1914 oil on canvas Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
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Frederick Carl Frieseke The Window ca. 1915 oil on canvas Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia |
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Frederick Carl Frieseke Through the Vines ca. 1908 oil on canvas Akron Art Museum, Ohio |
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Laurie Simmons Blond, Red Dress, Kitchen 1978 C-print Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
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Laurie Simmons Woman, Purple Dress, Kitchen 1978 C-print Walker Art Center, Minneapolis |
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Laurie Simmons Woman watching Television 1978 C-print Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
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Laurie Simmons New Bathroom, Woman Kneeling, First View 1979 C-print Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
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Laurie Simmons New Bathroom, Aerial View, Sunlight 1979 C-print Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
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Josef Albers Frau Lewandowski: München 1930 gelatin silver print Guggenheim Museum, New York |
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Josef Albers Untitled (Corpus Christi, Texas - Carousel) 1937 gelatin silver print Guggenheim Museum, New York |
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Josef Albers Study for Homage to the Square: Consent 1971 oil on panel Guggenheim Museum, New York |
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Josef Albers Homage to the Square: Ascending "Eggs for Breakfast" 1953 oil on panel Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
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Josef Albers Homage to the Square: Apparition 1959 oil on panel Guggenheim Museum, New York |
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Nathan Oliveira Bather I 1959 oil on linen Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
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Nathan Oliveira Italian Sentinel 1959 oil on canvas Orange County Museum of Art, Costa Mesa, California |
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Nathan Oliveira Jumping Dog 1962 oil on linen Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
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Nathan Oliveira London Site 6 1984 monotype Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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Nathan Oliveira Man with a Hat, Cane and Gloves 1959 oil on canvas Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
River Poem
This old man had lavender skin, a handkerchief
Toppling from his breastpocket like an iris.
We on the riverbank watched the gracing rowers
Leaving the shore and watched him watch them leave,
And Charles said: I wonder if they mean to him
As much as I can imagine they mean to him.
Charles was like that. But as evening became
A purple element we stayed there wondering
About the old man – talking of other things,
For although the old man, by the time we all went home,
Had moved away he stayed there wandering
Like a river-flower, thinking of rivery things
(We supposed) well into the twilight. We would never
Know, this we knew, how much it had meant to him –
Oars, violet water, laughter on the stream.
Though we knew, Charles said, just how much he meant to the river.
For he moved away, leaving us there on the grass,
But the river did not vanish, or not then at least.
– James Merrill (1951)