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| Kazimir Malevich Untitled ca. 1916 oil on canvas Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice |
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| Albert Magnelli Untitled 1918 drawing Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
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| John Opper Untitled 1935 oil on canvas Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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| Alice Trumbull Mason Untitled 1937 lithograph Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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| László Moholy-Nagy Untitled 1946 gouache and ink on paper Guggenheim Museum, New York |
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| Mac Le Sueur Untitled ca. 1950 oil on canvas Walker Art Center, Minneapolis |
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| Elmer Bischoff Untitled 1952 oil on canvas Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
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| Hassel Smith Untitled 1959 oil on canvas San Jose Museum of Art, California |
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| Ed McGowin Untitled 1961 oil on canvas Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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| John Le Quintana Untitled ca. 1962 lithograph Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum |
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| Nicky Nodjoumi Untitled ca. 1976 mixed media on paper Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
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| Elizabeth Peak Untitled 1976 etching Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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| Sally Mann Untitled 1996 gelatin silver print Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
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| Laura Owens Untitled 2006 oil and acrylic on linen Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
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| Jan van der Ploeg Untitled 2014 acrylic on canvas Kunstmuseum, The Hague |
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| John Nixon Untitled 2015 collage of cut and found paper Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney |
Visits to St. Elizabeths
1950
This is the house of Bedlam.
This is the man
that lies in the house of Bedlam.
This is the time
of the tragic man
that lies in the house of Bedlam.
This is a wristwatch
telling the time
of the talkative man
that lies in the house of Bedlam.
This is a sailor
wearing the watch
that tells the time
of the honored man
that lies in the house of Bedlam.
This is the roadstead all of board
reached by the sailor
wearing the watch
that tells the time
of the old, brave man
that lies in the house of Bedlam.
These are the years and the walls of the ward,
the winds and clouds of the sea of board
sailed by the sailor
wearing the watch
that tells the time
of the cranky man
that lies in the house of Bedlam.
This is a Jew in a newspaper hat
that dances weeping down the ward
over the creaking sea of board
beyond the sailor
winding his watch
that tells the time
of the cruel man
that lies in the house of Bedlam.
This is a world of books gone flat.
This is a Jew in a newspaper hat
that dances weeping down the ward
over the creaking sea of board
of the batty sailor
that winds his watch
that tells the time
of the busy man
that lies in the house of Bedlam.
This is a boy that pats the floor
to see if the world is there, is flat,
for the widowed Jew in the newspaper hat
that dances weeping down the ward
waltzing the length of a weaving board
by the silent sailor
that hears his watch
that ticks the time
of the tedious man
that lies in the house of Bedlam.
These are the years and the walls and the door
that shut on a boy that pats the floor
to feel if the world is there and flat.
This is a Jew in a newspaper hat
that dances joyfully down the ward
into the parting seas of board
past the staring sailor
that shakes his watch
that tells the time
of the poet, the man
that lies in the house of Bedlam.
This is the soldier home from the war.
These are the years and the walls and the door
that shut on a boy that pats the floor
to see if the world is round or flat.
This is a Jew in a newspaper hat
that dances carefully down the ward,
walking the plank of a coffin board
with the crazy sailor
that shows his watch
that tells the time
of the wretched man
that lies in the house of Bedlam.
– Elizabeth Bishop (1979)