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| David Willetts Lilies 1976 acrylic on board Southampton City Art Gallery, Hampshire |
Monet
Unable to get into the Monet show,
Too many people there, too many cars,
We spent the Sunday morning at Bowl Pond
A mile from the Museum, where no one was,
And walked an hour or so around the rim
Beside five acres of flowering waterlilies
Lifting three feet above their floating pads
Huge yellow flowers heavy on bending stems
In various phases of array and disarray
Of petals packed, unfolded, opening to show
The meaty orange centers that become,
When the ruined flags fall away, green shower heads
Spilling their wealth of seed at summer's end
Into the filthy water among small fish
Mud-colored and duck moving explorative
Through jungle pathways opened among huge fronds
Upon whose surface water drops behave
Like mercury, collecting in heavy silver coins
Instead of bubbles; some few redwinged blackbirds
Whistling above all this once in a while,
The silence else unbroken all about.
– Howard Nemerov (1979)
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| Jack Beal Water Lilies ca. 1975 lithograph Art Institute of Chicago |
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| John La Farge Water Lily and Moth ca. 1878 watercolor Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut |
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| William Samuel Wright Beau and the Water-Lily ca. 1910 oil on canvas Cowper and Newton Museum, Olney, Buckinghamshire |
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| Reuben T.W. Sayers The Water Lily 1850 oil on canvas Manchester Art Gallery |
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| Claude Monet The Water Lily Pond 1899 oil on canvas National Gallery, London |
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| William Holt Yates Titcomb Lily Pond and Orangerie, Goldney House, Bristol 1920 watercolour on paper Bushey Museum and Art Gallery, Hertfordshire |
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| Tom Clifton Butterfield The Lily Pool 1905 oil on canvas Bradford Museums and Galleries, Yorkshire |
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| Winston Churchill The Lily Pond at Coombe Place ca. 1930 oil on canvas National Trust, Chartwell, Kent |
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| Edward Atkinson Hornel Lily Pond 1905 oil on canvas Dick Institute, Kilmarnock, Ayrshire, Scotland |
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| Marianne North Water-Lily and Surrounding Vegetation in Van Staaden's Kloof ca. 1882 oil on panel Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew |
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| Claude Monet Water Lilies 1906 oil on canvas Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Martin Johnson Heade Water Lily ca. 1885-1900 oil on canvas Museum of Fine Arts, Boston |
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| Roger Fenton Lily House, Botanic Garden, Oxford 1859 albumen silver print Getty Museum, Los Angeles |