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| Anonymous Photographer William Sommer ca. 1940 gelatin silver print Archives of American Art, Washington DC |
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| William Sommer Self Portrait before 1949 drawing Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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| William Sommer Watercolor before 1949 watercolor on paper Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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| William Sommer Arrangement IV 1936 watercolor and ink on paper (WPA Project) Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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| William Sommer Study of Horses ca. 1935 watercolor and ink on paper Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri |
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| William Sommer Tree with Rooftop before 1949 drawing Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio |
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| William Sommer Still Life before 1949 drawing Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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| William Sommer Tubes in Landscape 1925 oil on board Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC |
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| William Sommer Portrait of Martha Sommer ca. 1927 watercolor and ink on paper Akron Art Museum, Ohio |
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| William Sommer Portrait of Miss Eunice Merton 1944 watercolor and ink on paper Akron Art Museum, Ohio |
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| William Sommer Study of a Girl before 1949 drawing Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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| William Sommer Pitcher and Bowl before 1949 drawing Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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| William Sommer Seated Boy ca. 1933 watercolor and ink on paper Akron Art Museum, Ohio |
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| William Sommer Seated Boy ca. 1940 watercolor, gouache and ink on paper Princeton University Art, Museum |
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| William Sommer Figure Studies 1929 watercolor and ink on paper Akron Art Museum, Ohio |
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| William Sommer Figure Study before 1949 drawing Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri |
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| William Sommer Portrait of artist Rolf Stoll ca. 1925 oil on board Akron Art Museum, Ohio |
from The Thebiad
The fatal Hour arrives so rashly sought,
With Horror, Sorrow, Blood and Carnage fraught;
And Death, from Chains and Stygian Darkness freed,
Enjoys the Light, and stalking o'er the Mead,
Expands his Jaws, and to his Arms invites
The Men of Worth, but vulgar Triumphs slights.
He marks the Chiefs who most deserve their Life,
The first in Arms and foremost in the Strife;
Of these, scarce number'd with the mighty dead,
The Fiends rapacious snatch the vital Thread.
Mars occupies the Centre of the Field,
His Javelin dry; where'er he turns his Shield,
The fatal Touch crazes from the Mind
Wives, Children, Home, and leaves a Blank behind.
The Love of Life too flies among the rest,
The last that lingers in the human Breast.
Wrath sits suspended on their thirsty Spears,
And half unsheath'd each angry Blade appears.
The Helmets tremble, formidably gay
With nodding Crests, and shed a gloomy Ray.
– Statius (AD 45-96), translated by William Lewis (1767)