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Helen Torr: Little Boat
Where is the lambent light Long Island is fabled for? In Helen Torr's Houses on a Boat the sky lowers over turbulent waters, possibly a reflection of the artist's own uncertain future. Painted...
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In the Footsteps of Dorothy Parker: Wendy Cope
"At Christmas little children sing and merry bells jingle,The cold winter air makes our hands and faces tingleAnd happy families go to church and cheerily they mingleAnd the whole business is...
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Eileen Agar: Water Sprite
Try telling a fish about water. Dynamism radiates in all directions from Ondine. Underwater, she floats within a protective penumbra, rather like thee spikes of a porcupine. We also see a fish tail...
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A Commedia del arte Christmas
Marionettes, (puppets controlled by strings), have been performing at Christmas markets since medieval times. These marionettes included characters from the commedia del arte, such Pulcinella. The name...
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Ocotillo Nocturne
Those long ghostly black fingers, visible in silhouette, are the branches of the Ocotillo cactus. The 'vine cactus' is indigenous to the desert of the Imperial Valley. Tucked into the southeasternmost...
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Ebisu Catching a Goldfish
But perhaps the heartDoes not want to be understood. Your shadow falls on its pondand the small fish hurry away.They have their own lives,not yours, which they love.And if to you it is...
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Aymeric Fouquez: A Quiet Eye
"This landscape looks like a secretbecause the river can't be seenfrom the spot where I am standing.And there fore it isthe landscape where I most easilywould be able to do without myself.Among there...
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Berthe Morisot: Things You Can't See In A Painting
(T)here is only one true Impressionist in the whole revolutionary group - and that is Mlle Berthe Morisot." - Paul Mantz, 1877 When the Barnes Foundation organized their Berthe Morisot retrospective in...
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