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| Herbert Davis Richter A Garden Room ca. 1946 oil on canvas McManus Gallery, Dundee |
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| Bernard Adeney The Window before 1925 oil on canvas Manchester Art Gallery |
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| William Ratcliffe Cottage Interior 1920 oil on canvas North Hertfordshire Museum |
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| Keith Baynes Window, Florence before 1925 oil on canvas Manchester Art Gallery |
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| Mary Dawson Elwell The Landing in Summer 1930 oil on canvas Grundy Art Gallery, Blackpool, Lancashire |
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| Vanessa Bell Interior ca. 1950 oil on canvas Touchstones Rochdale, Lancashire |
Looking Out the Window Poem
The sounds of traffic
die over the back lawn
to occur again in the low
distance.
The voices, risen, of
the neighborhood cannot
maintain that pitch
and fail briefly, start
up again.
Similarly my breathing rises
and falls while I look out
the window of apartment
number three in this slum,
hoping for rage, or sorrow.
They don't come to me
anymore. How can I lament
anything? It is all
so proper, so much
as it should be, now
the nearing cumulus
clouds, ominous,
shift, they are like the
curtains, billowy,
veering at the apex
of their intrusion on the room.
If I am alive now,
it is only
to be in all this
making all possible.
I am glad to be
finally a part
of such machinery. I was
after all not so fond
of living, and there comes
into me, when I see
how little I liked
being a man, a great joy.
Look out our astounding
clear windows before evening.
It is almost as if
the world were blue
with some lubricant,
it shines so.
– Denis Johnson (1995)
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| Alec Cobbe Lindy Dufferin drawing in the Library at Clandeboye 1983 acrylic on board National Trust, Hatchlands, Surrey |
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| David Cooper Winter Morning, Rome 1988 oil on canvas Aberdeen Art Gallery |
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| Patrick Adam View of a Room in Lady Randolph Churchill's House, Westbourne Street, Sussex Square 1919 oil on canvas National Trust, Chartwell, Kent |
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| Mstislav Dobuzhinsky New York Rooftops - My Window in New York 1943 oil on cardboard Ashmolean Museum, Oxford |
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| Spencer Gore View from a Window 1909 oil on canvas Southampton City Art Gallery |
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| Paul Winstanley Nostalgia 1 1999 oil on linen Southampton City Art Gallery |
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| Duncan Grant The Back Window of Gordon Square ca. 1918 oil on canvas Aberdeen Art Gallery, Scotland |
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| Elsie-Hugo Rowe Three Blouses 1935 oil on panel Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, West Midlands |
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| Charles Hodge Mackie An Interior, Venice 1914 oil on panel Hunterian Art Gallery, University of Glasgow |