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| Girolamo dai Libri Virgin and Child enthroned, with St Joseph, the Archangel Raphael, and Tobias (detail) 1530 oil on panel Museo di Castelvecchio, Verona |
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| Odilon Redon Pepper and Lemon 1901 oil on canvas Gemeentemuseum, The Hague |
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| Édouard Manet Lemon 1880 oil on canvas Musée d'Orsay, Paris |
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| Dorothy Mead Vase of Flowers 1957 oil on canvas London South Bank University |
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| Auguste Renoir Bouquet on a Sofa ca. 1878-80 oil on canvas Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris |
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| John Houston Yellow Flowers in a Black Jug ca. 1975 oil on canvas Glasgow Museums, Scotland |
The Yellow Bowl
If light pours like water
into the kitchen where I sway
with my tired children,
if the rug beneath us
is woven with tough flowers,
and the yellow bowl on the table
rests with the sweet heft
of fruit, the sun-warmed plums,
if my body curves over the babies,
and if I am singing,
then loneliness has lost its shape,
and this quiet is only quiet.
– Rachel Contreni Flynn (2009)
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| Archibald McGlashan Still Life 1948 oil on canvas Aberdeen Art Gallery, Scotland |
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| Paul Cézanne Curtain, Jug and Fruit ca. 1893-94 oil on canvas Whitney Museum, New York |
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| Bernard Meninsky Still Life 1921 oil on canvas Mercer Art Gallery, Harrogate, Yorkshire |
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| François Bonvin Still Life with Apples and Silver Goblet 1876 oil on canvas Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow |
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| Roland Delaporte Still Life with Fruit and Bread ca. 1775-85 oil on canvas Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam |
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| Jan Davidsz de Heem Flowers in a Glass Vase on a Marble Plinth ca. 1670 oil on canvas National Gallery, London |
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| William Somerville Shanks Pipes of Pan ca. 1919 oil on canvas Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow, Scotland |
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| Andrew Law Chrysanthemums 1944 oil on canvas Dick Institute, Kilmarnock, Scotland |
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| Willem van Aelst Flowers and Butterflies ca. 1670 oil on panel Galleria Borghese, Rome |