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| Jan Victors The Butcher's Shop 1651 oil on canvas York City Art Gallery, North Yorkshire |
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| Anonymous French Photographer Grande Teinturerie Liègeoise 1911 gelatin silver print Museum of Modern Art, New York |
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| Gustav Wentzel Carpenter's Workshop 1881 oil on canvas Nasjonalmuseet, Oslo |
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| William Williams Limekiln at Night ca. 1800 oil on canvas National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth |
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| Hubert Vos The Knitting Room 1889 oil on canvas private collection |
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| James Ensor A Colourist 1880 oil on canvas Musée Fin-de-Siècle, Brussels |
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| Mariana Yampolsky La Ciega 1964 gelatin silver print San Francisco Museum of Modern Art |
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| Charles-Paul Renouard The Mint 1895 drawing Ashmolean Museum, Oxford |
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| Irving Penn Blast Furnace Tender 1951 platinum-palladium print Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Anton Refregier Expansion of the City (sketch for Post Office mural, San Francisco) 1941 tempera and watercolor on panel Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York |
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| Chaïm Soutine The Bellboy ca. 1927 oil on canvas Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris |
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| Norman Rockwell The Master and the Apprentice 1924 oil on canvas Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York |
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| Jacques Villon Boat Towers 1930 etching and drypoint Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Roy Colmer Man by Saks Fifth Avenue 1985 gelatin silver print Museum of Modern Art, New York |
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| Max Yavno Repairing Sacks, Cairo 1979 gelatin silver print National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Domenico Fetti Barber shaving Customer, Boy holding Torch before 1624 drawing British Museum |
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| Jacques Lowe Mother cutting Son's Hair ca. 1958 gelatin silver print Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York |
Thistles
Against the rubber tongues of cows and the hoeing hands of men
Thistles spike the summer air
Or crackle open under a blue-black pressure.
Every one a revengeful burst
Of resurrection, a grasped fistful
Of splintered weapons and Icelandic frost thrust up
From the underground stain of a decayed Viking.
They are like pale hair and gutterals of dialects.
Every one manages a plume of blood.
Then they grow grey, like men.
Mown down, it is a feud. Their sons appear,
Stiff with weapons, fighting back over the same ground.
– Ted Hughes (1967)