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Ilya Repin The Unexpected Homecoming 1884 oil on canvas State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow |
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Jean-Léon Gérôme The Grief of the Pasha 1885 oil on canvas Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha |
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Harriet Backer Bleaching Linen 1886 oil on canvas Nasjonalmuseet, Oslo |
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Alexandre Cabanal Cleopatra testing Poisons on Condemned Prisoners 1887 oil on canvas Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp |
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Georges-Antoine Rochegrosse Salome dancing before King Herod 1887 oil on canvas Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha |
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Joseph Granie The Portrait ca. 1890 oil on canvas Musée des Augustins de Toulouse |
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Georges Moreau de Tours Les Fascinés de la Charité 1890 oil on canvas Musée des Beaux-Arts de Reims |
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Giacomo Mantegazza Young Mozart playing for George III of England ca. 1891 oil on canvas Accademia Carrara, Bergamo |
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Adrien Barrère Un Crime dans une Maison de Fous Théâtre du Grand Guignol de Paris ca. 1905 lithograph (poster) Kunstbibliothek, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin |
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Dora Hitz Picking Cherries ca. 1905 oil on canvas Alte Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin |
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Nikolai Astrup Weekend 1912 oil on canvas KODE (Art Museums Complex), Bergen, Norway |
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Jean-Théodore Dupas The Archer 1917 oil on canvas Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux |
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Anonymous Russian Designer Slackers Cost Millions of Rubles ca. 1925 lithograph (poster) Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
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Arvid Fougstedt The Count of Monte Cristo ca. 1925 watercolor on paper Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
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Harald Sallberg By Lamplight 1929 etching Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
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Lucien Aigner Lady of the Night on the Terrace of the Dôme ca. 1935 gelatin silver print Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
Moment in Suburban Summer
Whatever space the anonymous multitudes
of leaves or the named rows of brick
do not inhabit is thick
with the light of noon. Until the dove intrudes.
It's not a song, a cry, or voice. It echoes
merely, revealing hollows
that roll and sound
through the packed air and weave off underground.
And all the streets turn from the crowding sun
to listen down
chasms of unbelief
weighing deep and numb between leaf and leaf.
– Ernest Sandeen, from Children and Older Strangers (1962)