 |
| Friedrich Adolf Paneth Heinz Paneth in a Tree ca. 1925 autochrome Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
 |
| Anonymous Photographer Woman in a Tree ca. 1910 gelatin silver print Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
 |
| Léon Bonvin Landscape with Bare Tree and Plowman 1864 drawing, with watercolor Getty Museum, Los Angeles |
 |
| Rolf Krause Three Trees before 1982 etching Gemäldegalerie, Dresden |
 |
| George Henry Smillie Avenue of Trees 1878 watercolor Yale University Art Gallery |
 |
| Paul Cézanne Avenue of Chestnut Trees at the Jas de Bouffon ca. 1878-90 watercolor Städel Museum, Frankfurt |
 |
| Meade Ashley Spencer Apple Tree 1928 etching Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio |
 |
| John Taylor Arms The Apple Tree 1920 etching Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia |
 |
| Jacques Hnizdovsky Apple Tree before 1985 drawing Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia |
 |
| Vance Gellert Apple Tree, Isles 1991 C-print Minneapolis Institute of Art |
 |
| Auguste Lepère The Dead Apple Tree 1913 etching Art Institute of Chicago |
 |
| Nicolaas Bastert Two Studies of Tree and Fence ca. 1910 drawing Teylers Museum, Haarlem |
 |
| James Stack Lauder Tree Study ca. 1880 albumen print Museum of Fine Arts, Boston |
 |
| Zoe Leonard Detail (Tree + Fence) 1998 gelatin silver print Tate Gallery |
 |
| Charles Clifford Walnut Tree of Emperor Charles V at Yuste 1858 albumen silver print Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
 |
| Eric Thake Soldier's Memorial Tree 1957 gelatin silver print National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne |
from Industrial Teflon Comes Into Domestic Use
After the wars were over, the ones people sang about,
things quit sticking. My grandparents, for instance,
shook the dirt from their shoes and moved to town,
drove the paved streets of Columbia, spurned
orange juice for astronaut Tang.
And what year exactly did I start shaking off hugs?
things quit sticking. My grandparents, for instance,
shook the dirt from their shoes and moved to town,
drove the paved streets of Columbia, spurned
orange juice for astronaut Tang.
And what year exactly did I start shaking off hugs?
For a wedding gift, I got Teflon pans.
Teflon, if you'd like to know, is a long-chain polymer,
a fluorocarbon plastic, like Freon.
As good as gold and platinum at resisting things.
Eggs slide right off, as on TV.
Teflon, if you'd like to know, is a long-chain polymer,
a fluorocarbon plastic, like Freon.
As good as gold and platinum at resisting things.
Eggs slide right off, as on TV.
Not to mention what came after, Reagan and Bush,
facts sliding across the screen, disappearing
out of memory.
out of memory.
Not to mention the literary canon: Pope, Richardson,
Dryden, Spenser. Who reads them now?
Dryden, Spenser. Who reads them now?
– Fleda Brown (2000)