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| Larry Zox Alto Velto 1969 acrylic on canvas Guggenheim Museum, New York |
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| James Yarnell Erosion Patterns, Roan Cliffs, Utah 1960 gelatin silver print Wichita Art Museum, Kansas |
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| Paul Wunderlich La Tête 1965 lithograph Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC |
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| Joachim Wtewael Adoration of the Shepherds 1598 oil on canvas Centraal Museum, Utrecht |
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| Zao Wou-ki Mistral 1957 oil on canvas Guggenheim Museum, New York |
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| Jay Wolke Sanctuary, Agudas Achim 1994 C-print Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Joel-Peter Witkin Hermaphrodite with Christ 1985 gelatin silver print Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Johann Amandus Wink Still Life ca. 1785-87 oil on canvas Museumslandschaft Hessen Kassel |
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| Clarence H. White Rest Hour, Columbia Teachers' College 1912 platinum print Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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| Edward Weston Kelp no. 3 1936 gelatin silver print National Museum of American History, Washington DC |
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| Benjamin West Moses and the Brazen Serpent 1787 drawing Minneapolis Institute of Art |
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| Stephen Weitz Death to the Knights of Mary Phagan 1982-83 intaglio print Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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| Margaret Watkins Still Life Shower Hose 1919 gelatin silver print National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa |
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| Elisabeth Geertruida Wassenbergh Interior with Elegant Company 1781 oil on panel Groninger Museum, Netherlands |
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| Shawn Walker James Baldwin's Mother and Sister at his Funeral 1987 gelatin silver print Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
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| Simon Vouet Figure Study for Crucifixion ca. 1630 drawing Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin |
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| Friedrich Vordemberge-Gildewart Composition no. 142 1943 oil on canvas Guggenheim Museum, New York |
The Blue Suit
Richard Anderson, master Savile Row tailor,
Opens the eleventh floor hotel room door
Wearing a new suit so blue
It makes me smile,
Something no suit has been able to do for quite a while.
Welcome to room 1111 at the Carlyle.
When earlier in the morning Richard crossed the street
To the pharmacy opposite,
A stranger coming out of Zitomer's cried out,
"My God, that suit is blue!"
Which was hilariously true.
All day long people remarked on it: the suit, and the blue, and the fit.
Richard and I walked around with, in our heads, a museum
Of, in his case, clothes he has made over the years,
And, in mine, clothes he has made for me that I have worn.
I have worn a lot of clothes since I was born.
Diapers eventually turned into bespoke
Suits that rise like ghosts out of the smoke.
Suits hang from their hangers in my mind
And faintly tinkle in the wind
Like wind chimes,
Prettifying my many crimes.
Mr. Hall at Huntsman was followed by his former pupil,
Now at his own firm, Richard Anderson at Richard Anderson.
What does a blue suit do?
What does a blue suit know?
It won't find friends in Moscow
When it's as electric blue as this one is.
It's a bit too Broadway musical, too Broadway show,
For Washington, D.C.
My dear severe Mr. Hall, whom I called the Reverend,
And who died a decade ago,
Wafts like mist through my mind
And falls like gently falling snow.
The wind chimes tinkle softly in the perfumed nights on Bali.
The trumpets of life-after-death blow.