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Julian Onderdonk~ Bluebonnet Landscape with Cacti, Road and Mountain Laurel

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Dorothea Tanning-Birthday

1942 Oil on canvas 40 1/4 x 25 1/2 in.

Philadelphia Museum of Art. Purchased with funds contributed by C.K. Williams, II 1999-50-1

In her own words...

At first there was only that one picture, a self-portrait. It was a modest canvas by present-day standards. But it filled my New York studio, the apartment’s back room, as if it had always been there. For one thing, it was the room; I had been struck, one day, by a fascinating array of doors—hall, kitchen, bathroom, studio—crowded together, soliciting my attention with their antic planes, light, shadows, imminent openings and shuttings. From there it was an easy leap to a dream of countless doors. Perhaps in a way it was a talisman for the things that were happening, an iteration of quiet event, line densities wrought in a crystal paperweight of time where nothing was expected to appear except the finished canvas and, later, a few snowflakes, for the season was Christmas, 1942, and Max was my Christmas present.

It was snowing hard when he rang the doorbell. Choosing pictures for a show to be called Thirty Women (later Thirty-One Women), he was a willing emissary to the studios of a bouquet of pretty young painters who, besides being pretty, which they couldn’t help, were also very serious about being artists.

“Please come in,” I smiled, trying to say it as if to just anyone. He hesitated, stamping his feet on the doormat. “Oh, don’t mind the wet,” I added. “There are no rugs here.” There wasn’t much furniture either, or anything to justify the six rooms, front to back. We moved to the studio, a livelier place in any case, and there on an easel was the portrait, not quite finished. He looked while I tried not to. At last, “What do you call it?” he asked. “I really haven’t a title.” “Then you can call it Birthday.” Just like that.      –from Birthday, Santa Monica: The Lapis Press, 1986, p. 14, and Between Lives: An Artist and Her World. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2001, pp. 62-63.

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Gertrude Abercrombie

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Baby hummingbirds nested on top of a gargoyle>

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Yes —-And You and I (2003 Remaster)

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Sandy Denny

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Dinosaur jr. -Just Like Heaven

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Dr. Dain Tasker. A Snail, 1930.

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The Roofs of Paris (1886) by Vincent van Gogh

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Bad Cat

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Keith Haring painting a mural on the Houston Bowery Wall in New York City, 1982.

Photos by Tseng Kwong Chi

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