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| William Baziotes Abstraction ca. 1943 mixed media on paper Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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| William Baziotes The Parachutists 1944 enamel on canvas Guggenheim Museum, New York |
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| William Baziotes Night Figure no. 1 ca. 1945 watercolor, ink, gouache and graphite on paper Guggenheim Museum, New York |
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| William Baziotes Green Form 1945-46 oil on canvas Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
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| William Baziotes The Falcon 1947 oil on canvas Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC |
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| Lee Francis William Baziotes in the Studio ca. 1947 gelatin silver print Archives of American Art, Washington DC |
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| William Baziotes Pierrot II 1948 oil on canvas Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia |
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| William Baziotes Pink Figure 1949 watercolor, charcoal and ink on paper North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh |
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| Rudy Burckhardt Ethel and William Baziotes with gallery directors Samuel and Jane Kootz ca. 1950 gelatin silver print Archives of American Art, Washington DC |
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| William Baziotes Dusk 1954 oil on canvas New Britain Museum of American Art, Connecticut |
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| William Baziotes Congo 1954 oil on canvas Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
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| William Baziotes Black Night 1954 oil on canvas Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh |
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| William Baziotes Watercolor #1 1958 watercolor on paper Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC |
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| William Baziotes Watercolor #5 / Verso: Composition 1958 watercolor on paper Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC |
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| William Baziotes Untitled ca. 1962 watercolor on paper Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
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| William Baziotes Untitled before 1963 watercolor on paper Art Institute of Chicago |
from Strato in Plaster
Out of the blue, in plaster from wrist to bicep
Somebody opens a beer, pretending to be
My friend Strato. Years or minutes – which? –
Have passed since we last looked upon each other.
He's in town for his sister's wedding
To this elderly thin-lipped sonofabitch
Who gets the house for dowry – enough to make
A brother break with the entire family.
Considering it, his eyes fairly cross
With self-importance. That, I recognize.
Here at hand is a postcard Chester sent
Of the Apollo at Olympia,
Its message Strato as he used to be.
Joy breeds in the beautiful blind gaze,
The marble mouth and breastbone. I look hard
At both the god and him. (He loves attention
Like gods and children, and he lifts his glass.)
Those extra kilos, that moustache,
Lies found out and letters left unanswered
Just won't do. It makes him burst out laughing,
Curiously happy, flecked with foam.
– James Merrill (1972)