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| Alex Katz Young Trees 1989 oil on board Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh |
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| David Willetts Trees and Sun 1976 oil on board Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art |
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| David Scott Montagu Avenue, Broughton ca. 1965-75 oil on canvas Astley Cheetham Art Collection, Manchester |
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| George Shaw Scenes from the Passion: The Swing 2002-2003 enamel on panel University of Warwick, Coventry |
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| Maggi Hambling Sleepwalker 1978 oil on canvas Norfolk Museums |
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| Diana Cumming Paradise Lost Book XII (The Expulsion from Eden) 1951 oil on canvas University College London Art Museum |
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| Steven Campbell Young Man Surrendering to the Landscape 1983 oil on canvas Glasgow Museums |
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| Pieter Brueghel the Younger The Faithless Shepherd before 1637 oil on panel Aberdeen Art Gallery |
Fisherman's Ditty
Goodbye to the little yard full of clover and crabgrass,
the sagging carport and the neighbors. Farewell to the rabbi
who ate nothing but pizza, to splitting wood in the driveway
on a portable stump, which the neighbors watched
from the shadows in back of their kitchens as I brought
the maul down on a life that was hardly a life at all
but a series of internal negotiations over which of us
put out the most orderly, incumbent trash of the week.
It was a life I asked for and loved and never knew why
it never seemed to be mine but a wave that washed over me,
my head full of voluptuous seaweed, shipwreck and foam.
Believe me, I love to lie here singing this fisherman's ditty,
a bit of rope in my hands for practicing my knots,
mind loosened by grog, whine of the squeezebox, wheeze
of the salts cantering out onto the deck under the stars.
Beneath the tune, unmistakable and huge, the sea's heave.
– Roger Mitchell (2006)
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| William Henry Bartlett A Breezy Crossing 1893 oil on canvas Cartwright Hall Art Gallery, Bradford, Yorkshire |
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| Laetitia Yhap Doris and a Lad helping Paddy and Flasher, Dick and Tom coming Ashore 1979 oil on board St George's Hospital, London |
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| Kate Whiteford Merger ca. 1975-85 oil on canvas Royal Scottish Academy of Art and Architecture, Edinburgh |
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| Thelma Hulbert Rocks Under Water 1962-65 oil on canvas Southbank Centre, London |
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| Peter Webster Silver 1999 oil on canvas Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen |
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| James McNeill Whistler The Bathing Posts, Brittany 1893 oil on panel Hunterian Art Gallery, University of Glasgow |
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| Susan Foord Blue Wave 1996-97 oil on panel Royal West of England Academy, Bristol |
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| Anonymous British Artist Lady Hamilton waving farewell to Nelson from a rowboat 19th century oil on canvas Mercer Art Gallery, Harrogate, Yorkshire |