#anna lea merritt

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Anna Lea Merritt (American, 1844–1930) - Portrait of a young lady

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Anna Lea Merritt (American, 1844-1930) The watchers of the straight gate, 1894

"Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it" (Matthew 7:13-14). -The Bible

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Eve (Anna Lea Merrit, 1885)

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Isaiah 45:23 by The Mountain Goats // Eve (detail) by Anna Lea Merritt

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'The Watchers of the Straight Gate'.

Anna Lea Merritt  (1844-1930)

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Love locked out by Anna Lea Merritt painted in 1890

Part of the permanent collection at Tate Britain.

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Eve, Anna Lea Merritt 1844-1930

Excerpt from

Sharing Eve’s Apple

...

There’s a sigh for yes, and a sigh for no,

And a sigh for “I can’t bear it!”—

O what can be done, shall we stay or run?

O cut the sweet apple and share it.

John Keats (1795–1821)

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‘Eve Overcome with Remorse’ (detail) by Anna Lea Merritt, c. 1885.

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Captain Sir Lambton Loraine, 11th Bt (1884) by Anna Lea Merritt

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Eve by Anna Lea Merritt (1885)

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Anna Lea Merritt - Luna (1880s)

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Love Locked Out (1890)

Anna Lea Merritt (b. 1844, d. 1930)

"Merritt was excessively concerned that the viewing public only liked... (the popular painting of Love waiting at the door)... as a metaphor for unrequited love. It was, in fact, a portrait of the enduring love in grief, and waiting faithfully to be reunited in the afterlife, when the door would open. Her husband had passed suddenly three months after their marriage. Anna then spent the rest of her life mourning what life she could have had with him, while also writing what is now viewed as sapphic letters and essays, alluding to a second life she wished she could have had with a wife - a longing for a path not taken. Her complicated feelings towards her own sexuality and desires can also be felt in the piece, as the door to legally loving women would remain shut within her lifetime. Merritt felt her and other women's art suffered, both directly and socially, as a result of not being able to have a wife at home to take care of the house and support their art as they dove headlong into complex pieces that required their full attention. Though an antiquated view through the modern lens of feminism, such an idea was new and shocking at the turn of the 20th century; almost nobody but other women had considered the folded laundry, scrubbed dishes, fires stoked and dinners cooked as the painting itself languished, untouched by the artists so longing to get their brushes cleaned instead of their homes. In this way, the love of art as a whole is also represented - being a woman, she felt locked out of her own craft by what then was seen as an immutable characteristic - late Victorian gender roles."

(Lerato, 2023)

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Eve. By Anna Lea Merritt, (1844 - 1930). Oil on canvas

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“Eva arrepentida” es una obra de la pintora estadounidense Anna Lea Merritt realizada en 1885.

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