Pied Beauty, 1877 – Gerard Manley Hopkins, 1844-1889, British poet and Jesuit priest
Pied as in piebald horse:
speckled, freckled, mottled, stippled, flecked, spotted, splotched, blotched
Glory be to God for dappled things –
Korean Rhododendron fronting Spike winterhazel (Corylopsis spicata), Winterthur, Delaware, April every year
For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow;
Interior of the front door of Old St. Mary’s Roman Catholic Church, Philadelphia.
Built in 1763, it was the second Roman Catholic church to be built under the aegis of William Penn’s Holy Experiment: maximum religious freedom. This was despite the sanctions against this church in the British Empire at this time.
For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim;
Adapted from a video by Joan Jonas (American born 1936) focusing on environmental issues, 2018, MOMA, NY
Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls; finches’ wings;
Chestnuts, Philadelphia, every Autumn
In a vintage shop in Philadelphia in September 2018
Landscape plotted and pieced – fold, fallow, and plough;
The Road Across the Wolds, 1997, oil on canvas and detail. David Hockney, British born 1937. Private collection on loan to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2017/18
And áll trádes, their gear
Machine tournez vite, 1916-1918, brush and ink with watercolour and shell gold. Francis Picabia, 1979-1953, French. National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Google search page design for Labor Day, September 2018
Gear, c. 1922, oil on canvas. Arthur Garfield Dove, 1880-1946, American. Philadelphia Museum of Art
and tackle and trim.
Automotive Industry, 1940, oil on canvas. Works Progress Administration, Federal Art Project, mural for the Detroit Public Library. Marvin Beerbohm, 1908-1981, Canadian American. Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC
All things counter, original, spare, strange;
Night Life, 2014, oil and spray enamel on linen over panel. Benjamin Degen, American born 1974. From the artist’s website
Straight to you, oil and spray enamel on linen over panel, 2014. Benjamin Degen, American born 1974. From the artist’s website
Whatever is fickle, freckled (who knows how?)
Sneezeweed (Helenium), Mt. Cuba, Hockenville, Delaware
Cargo Cults Cover up: 2013-2016, pigmented inkjet print. Stephanie Syjuco, American born the Phillipines, 1974. Exhibited at MOMA, NY in 2018
Mountain laurel (Kalmi Latifolia), Brandywine River Museum and Conservancy, Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania
Cargo Cults: Head Bundle, 2013-2016, pigmented inkjet print. Stephanie Syjuco, American the Philippines, born 1974. Exhibited at MOMA, NY in 2018
Monarch butterfly among the Hollowstem Joe-pyeweed (Eutrochium fistulosum), September 2018, Mt. Cuba, Hockessin, Delaware
Cargo Cults: Basket Woman, 2013-2016, pigmented inkjet print. Stephanie Syjuco, American born the Phillipines, 1974. Exhibited at MOMA, NY in 2018
With swift, slow; sweet, sour; adazzle, dim;
Persian Window, 2004, blown glass. Dale Chihuly, American born 1941. Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington
He fathers-forth whose beauty is past change:
Love Cross, 1968 screeprint. Robert Indiana, American, 1928 – 2018 . Philadelphia Museum of Art In memoriam
Praise him.