John Aldridge Leyden ca. 1954 oil on panel Royal Academy of Arts, London |
Robert Buhler Market Garden ca. 1965-70 oil on canvas Royal Academy of Arts, London |
Frederick Cuming Dungeness from Hythe ca. 1975 oil on board Royal Academy of Arts, London |
Andrea Dykes March Hedgerow ca. 1944 oil on canvas Royal Academy of Arts, London |
Charles Gere The Mill Pool at Painswick 1945 oil on board Royal Academy of Arts, London |
Sydney Lee The House with Closed Shutters ca. 1926 oil on canvas Royal Academy of Arts, London |
Alphonse Legros Burgundy Landscape 1905 drawing Royal Academy of Arts, London |
Ben Levene London Park ca. 1980 oil on board Royal Academy of Arts, London |
Jack Millar Gardens 1967 oil on canvas Royal Academy of Arts, London |
John Nash The Lake, Little Horkesley Hall ca. 1958 oil on canvas Royal Academy of Arts, London |
Anne Redpath Cliffside, Portugal ca. 1965 oil on board Royal Academy of Arts, London |
Harry Rutherford Camden Town Street 1935 oil on canvas Royal Academy of Arts, London |
Christopher Sanders Wire ca. 1947 oil on canvas Royal Academy of Arts, London |
Ruskin Spear The Old Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith, 1943 1979 oil on board Royal Academy of Arts, London |
Gilbert Spencer Sussex Landscape 1956 oil on canvas Royal Academy of Arts, London |
John Titchell Summer ca. 1977 oil on panel Royal Academy of Arts, London |
Edward Wakeford The Mall ca. 1950-60 oil on canvas Royal Academy of Arts, London |
Aquarium
The fish are drifting calmly in their tank
between the green reeds, lit by a white glow
that passes for the sun. Blindly, the blank
glass that holds them in displays their slow
progress from end to end, familiar rocks
set into the gravel, murmuring rows
of filters, a universe the flying fox
and glass cats, Congo tetras, bristle-nose
plecostomus all take for granted. Yet
the platys, gold and red, persist in leaping
occasionally, as if they can't quite let
alone a possibility – of wings,
maybe, once they reach the air? They die
on the rug. We find them there, eyes open in surprise.
– Kim Addonizio (1994)