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| William Etty Model posed after a Figure in Michelangelo's Last Judgment ca. 1820 oil on canvas National Trust, Anglesey Abbey, Cambridge |
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| Pietro Aldi A Painter and his Model 1879 oil on panel Glasgow Museums |
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| Albert Rutherston Figure Study 1901 oil on canvas University College London Art Museum |
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| Anonymous British Artist Old Woman posing for a Life Class at the Slade School, London ca. 1910 oil on canvas University College London Art Museum |
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| Diana Kibblewhite Head of a Model 1923 oil on canvas University College London Art Museum |
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| Rex Whistler Seated Model 1924 oil on canvas University College London Art Museum |
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| Allan Carr Académie 1936 oil on canvas University College London Art Museum |
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| Valerie Conway The Fur Collar (Model at the Slade) 1947 oil on canvas University College London Art Museum |
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| Alan Fletcher Study of an Art School Model 1956 oil on canvas Glasgow Museums |
A Plague of Poets
A question posed to Flannery O'Connor, as to whether writing programs stifled writers, drew the famous, tart rejoinder that in her opinion they didn't stifle nearly enough.
Even if, as it is often said, there are too many of us – poets, that is – that the field is too crowded (as opposed to too many hedge-fund managers or too many pharmaceutical lobbyists or too many fundamentalists), time, rejection, discouragement, and the inevitable practicalities and detours (some of them fortuitous), as well as wasted energy, the slow seepage or sudden shift of interest, premature death, burdensome debt or better offers, usually cure the problem of overpopulation. In other words, there are plenty of natural predators.
– C.D. Wright (2016)
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| Myles Murphy Figure Study of a Woman ca. 1960 oil on canvas University College London Art Museum |
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| William John Connon Académie 1960 oil on canvas Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen |
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| Patrick Procktor Seated Figure 1962 oil on board University College London Art Museum |
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| Catherine Miller Untitled (Académie) 1970 oil on board Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen |
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| Phillip Mitchell Composition 1976 acrylic on canvas University College London Art Museum |
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| Maggi Hambling Preparatory Study for the Head of a Warder at the National Gallery 1981 oil on canvas Norfolk Museums |