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| Pierre Bonnard The Oil Lamp ca. 1898-1900 oil on panel Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge |
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| Pierre Bonnard View of the Seine at Vernon 1923 oil on canvas National Galleries of Scotland |
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| Eugène Boudin The Beach at Trouville 1873 oil on canvas Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge |
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| Eugène Boudin The Beach at Trouville 1884 oil on panel National Galleries of Scotland |
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| Gustave Courbet The Wave ca. 1869 oil on canvas National Galleries of Scotland |
An Afternoon at the Beach
I'll go among the dead to see my friend
The place I leave is beautiful: the sea
Repeats the winds' far swell in its long sound,
And, there beside it, houses solemnly
Shine with the modest courage of the land,
While swimmers try the verge of what they see.
I cannot go, although I should pretend
Some final self whose phantom eye could see
Him who because he is not cannot change.
And yet the thought of going makes the sea,
The land, the swimmers, and myself seem strange,
Almost as strange as they will someday be.
– Edgar Bowers (1961)
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| Gustave Courbet Trees in the Snow ca. 1865 oil on canvas National Galleries of Scotland |
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| Edgar Degas Woman drying herself ca. 1890-95 pastel National Galleries of Scotland |
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| Edgar Degas David and Goliath ca. 1864 oil on canvas Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge |
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| Edgar Degas Au Café ca. 1875-77 oil on canvas Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge |
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| Edgar Degas Copy after The Finding of Moses by Paolo Veronese ca. 1865-70 oil on canvas Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge |
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| Édouard Manet Copy after The Barque of Dante by Eugène Delacroix ca. 1854-58 oil on canvas Musée des beaux-arts de Lyon |
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| Édouard Manet Luncheon in the Studio 1868 oil on canvas Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen, Munich |
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| Camille Pissarro Route de Port Marly ca. 1860-67 oil on panel Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge |
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| Camille Pissarro The Marne at Chennevières ca. 1864-65 oil on canvas National Galleries of Scotland |
from The River
Yes, we'll gather by the river,
the beautiful, the beautiful river.
They say it runs by the throne of God.
This is where God invented fish.
Wherever, but then God's throne is as wide
as the universe. If you're attentive you'll
see the throne's borders in the stars. We're on this side
and when you get to the other side we don't know
what will happen if anything.
– Jim Harrison (2016)