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| Pablo Picasso Blue Roofs, Paris 1901 oil on board Ashmolean Museum, Oxford |
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| George Bellows Men of the Docks 1912 oil on canvas National Gallery, London |
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| Walter Sickert Queen's Road Station, Bayswater ca. 1916 oil on canvas Courtauld Gallery, London |
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| Robert Bevan Queen's Grove, St John's Wood 1918 oil on canvas Ashmolean Museum, Oxford |
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| Raoul Dufy Equestrian Statue of Henri IV, Paris 1921 oil on canvas Manchester Art Gallery |
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| Vanessa Bell On the Seine 1921 oil on canvas Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge |
Frame, an Epistle
Most of the things you made for me – blanket-
chest, lapdesk, the armless rocker – I gave
away to friends who could use them and not
be reminded of the hours lost there,
not having been witness to those designs,
the tedious finishes. But I did keep
the mirror, perhaps because like all mirrors,
most of these years it has been invisible,
part of the wall, or defined by reflection –
safe – because reflection, after all, does change.
I hung it here in the front, dark hallway
of this house you will never see, so that
it might magnify the meager light,
become a lesser, backward window. No one
pauses long before it. But this morning,
as I put on my overcoat, then straightened
my hair, I saw outside my face its frame
you made for me, admiring for the first
time the way the cherry you cut and planed
yourself had darkened, just as you said it would.
– Claudia Emerson (2003)
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| Frederick William Elwell Avignon from Les Rochers de Justice ca. 1930 oil on panel University of Hull Art Collection, Yorkshire |
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| L.S. Lowry The Courtyard 1936 oil on canvas The Potteries Museum and Art Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent |
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| Oskar Kokoschka Prague, Nostalgia 1938 oil on canvas Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh |
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| Argent Brierley Street in Stogumber (near Minehead, Somerset) 1941 oil on canvas Manchester Art Gallery |
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| Claude Rogers Snow in Bloomsbury 1945 oil on canvas Ashmolean Museum, Oxford |
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| Joan Hargreaves House with Black Shadows 1953 oil on canvas Manchester Metropolitan University Special Collections |
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| John Aldridge Piazza Trevi, Rome 1957 oil on canvas Royal Academy of Arts, London |
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| David Hepher The Windows of No. 19 1973 oil on canvas Cartwright Hall Art Gallery, Bradford, Yorkshire |
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| Alan Lowndes The Lone Vigil 1977 oil on card Yale Center for British Art |