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Miriam Schapiro Still Life - Flowers 1957 oil on canvas Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York |
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Miriam Schapiro Shrine (For R.K.) 1963 oil on canvas Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC |
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Anonymous Photographer Miriam Schapiro with lithograph version of Shrine 1964 photographic print Archives of American Art, Washington DC |
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Miriam Schapiro Shrine I 1964 lithograph Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas |
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Miriam Schapiro 16 Frames 1965 acrylic and collage on paper Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC |
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Miriam Schapiro 16 Frames #4 1966 acrylic on canvas Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC |
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Miriam Schapiro Painting City 1966 acrylic on canvas Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC |
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Miriam Schapiro Arbor 1967 acrylic on canvas Orange County Museum of Art, Costa Mesa, California |
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Miriam Schapiro Jigsaw 1969 acrylic on canvas Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
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Miriam Schapiro Dollhouse 1972 mixed-media assemblage Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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Miriam Schapiro The First Fan 1978 acrylic paint and fabric collage on canvas (reproduced here as gallery invitation) Archives of American Art, Washington DC |
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Ellie Thompson Miriam Schapiro with her Work ca. 1981 gelatin silver print Archives of American Art, Washington DC |
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Miriam Schapiro Wonderland 1983 acrylic paint, fabric collage and plastic beads on canvas Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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Miriam Schapiro Screenprint Portfolio - Cover Sheet 1992 screenprint Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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Miriam Schapiro Screenprint Portfolio - Lyubov Popova 1992 screenprint Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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Miriam Schapiro Screenprint Portfolio - Sonia Delaunay 1992 screenprint Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
Ode Nine
Behold yon Mountains hoary height
Made higher with new Mounts of Snow;
Again behold the Winter's weight
Oppress the lab'ring Woods below:
And streams with Icy fetters bound,
Benumbed and crampt to solid ground.
With well heaped Logs dissolve the cold,
And feed the genial heat with fires;
Produce the Wine, that makes us bold,
And sprightly Wit and Love inspires:
For what hereafter shall betide
God, if 'tis worth his care, provide.
Let him alone with what he made,
To toss and turn the World below;
At his command the storms invade;
The winds of his Commission blow;
Till with a Nod he bids 'em cease,
And then the Calm returns, and all in peace.
To morrow and her works defie,
Lay hold upon the present hour,
And snatch the pleasures passing by,
To put them out of Fortune's power:
Nor love, nor love's delights disdain,
What e're thou get'st to day is gain.
Secure those golden early joyes,
That Youth unsowred with sorrow bears,
E're with'ring time the taste destroyes,
With sickness and unweildy years!
For active sports, for pleasing rest,
This is the time to be possest;
The best is but in season best.
The pointed hour of promised bliss,
The pleasing whisper in the dark,
The half unwilling willing kiss,
The laugh that guides thee to the mark,
When the kind Nymph would coyness feign,
And hides but to be found again,
These, these are joyes the Gods for Youth ordain.
– Horace (65-8 BC), translated by John Dryden (1685)