The Boy’s King Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory’s History of King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table. Edited for Boys by Sidney Lanier. 1922.
Cover of The Boy’s King Arthur, 1922. N.C. Wyeth.
Title page of The Boy’s King Arthur, 1922. N.C. Wyeth.
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We think we know them, don’t we? How familiar they are! After all, we’ve spent so much time together. For years, decades, lifetimes even. Minutes add up to…
Robert Frost Quote
Night Angel Holding a Waning Moon by William Morris (born 24 March 1834)
“So age succeeds age, and dream succeeds dream, and the joy of the dreamer no man knoweth but he who dreameth. Our fathers had their dreams; we have ours; the generation that follows will have its own. Without dreams and phantoms, man cannot exist.”-The Story of An African Farm, Olive Schreiner (born 24 march 1855)
Portrait of Stéphane Mallarmé by his friend, Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1892):
Stéphane Mallarmé by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, 1892. Palace of Versailles.
“No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.”-Hal Borland
Washington Arch, Spring by Childe Hassam, circa 1893
This gallery contains 19 photos.
Thomas Hardy by William Strang, 1893. National Portrait Gallery, London.
Charles Demuth’s fabulous painting, I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold, was inspired by his friend William Carlos Williams’ poem, The Great Figure. The artwork is full of references to the poem and poet.
I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold by Charles Demuth, 1928. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City.
It’s always nice to see artists inspiring other artists, especially when they work in different mediums.
The Great Figure by William Carlos Williams
…hair, makeup, clothes, attitude, and personality.
Portrait of Solita Solano by Berenice Abbott, circa 1920
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