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| Joseph Stella Self Portrait ca. 1900 drawing National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC |
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| Joseph Stella Study for Battle of Lights: Coney Island Mardi Gras 1913 oil on canvas Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC |
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| Joseph Stella Luna Park ca. 1913 oil on board Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
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| Joseph Stella Abstraction: Mardi Gras 1914 watercolor and gouache on paper Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC |
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| Joseph Stella Steel Mill 1919 gouache on paper Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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| Man Ray Joseph Stella and Marcel Duchamp 1920 gelatin silver print Archives of American Art, Washington DC |
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| Joseph Stella Study for New York Interpreted: Brooklyn Bridge 1920 watercolor and ink on paper Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC |
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| Joseph Stella Cypresses and Tree Trunks 1922 watercolor, gouache and ink on paper Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC |
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| Joseph Stella The Palm (Herons) 1926 pastel on board Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC |
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| Joseph Stella Tree Cactus Moon ca. 1928 gouache on paper Reynolda House Museum of American Art, Winston-Salem, North Carolina |
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| Joseph Stella Neapolitan Song 1929 oil on canvas Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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| Joseph Stella The Lotus ca. 1930 oil on canvas Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington |
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| Joseph Stella Metropolitan Port ca. 1935-37 oil on canvas Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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| Joseph Stella Serenade: a Christmas Fantasy (La Fontaine) 1937 oil on canvas Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC |
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| Joseph Stella Still Life ca. 1939 pastel on board Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC |
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| Joseph Stella Self Portrait ca. 1940 watercolor, gouache and crayon on paper National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC |
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| Joseph Stella Portrait of Clara Fasano 1943 pastel on paper Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
Fragment
I hate Fruition, now 'tis past,
'Tis all but nastiness at best;
The homeliest thing, that man can do,
Besides, 'tis short and fleeting too:
A squirt of slippery Delight,
That with a moment takes its flight:
A fulsom Bliss, that soon does cloy,
And makes us loath what we enjoy.
Then let us not too eager run,
By Passion blindly hurried on,
Like Beasts, who nothing better know,
Than what meer Lust incites them to:
For when in Floods of Love we're drench'd,
The Flames are by enjoyment quench'd:
But thus, let's thus together lie,
And kiss out long Eternity:
Here we dread no conscious spies,
No blushes stain our guiltless Joys:
Here no Faintness dulls Desires,
And Pleasure never flags, nor tires:
This has pleas'd, and pleases now,
And for Ages will do so:
Enjoyment here is never done,
But fresh, and always but begun.
– Petronius Arbiter (died AD 65), translated by John Oldham (1683)