All will come again into its strength: the fields undivided, the waters undammed, the trees towering and the walls built low.
Life + Continual Growth I, 1988, collage of cut and torn printed papers (color lithographs) with acrylic paint and clear gloss acrylic.
Alvin Loving, 1935-2005, American. ?Location
And in the valleys, people as strong and varied as the land.
Study of a Figure in a Landscape, 1952, oil on canvas.
Francis Bacon, 1909-1992, Irish. Phillips Collection, Washington, DC
Our Land, 1951, egg tempera on panel, and detail.
Charles W. White, 1918-1979, American. Private collection on loan to MOMA, NY in 2018
And no churches where God is imprisoned and lamented like a trapped and wounded animal.
A Good Circular God, 1948-50, mixed media
Jean Reynal, 1903-1983, American. MOMA, NY
The houses welcoming all who knock and a sense of boundless offering in all relations, and in you and me.
Tender Souls, 1995, offset lithograph on paper
Wadsworth Jarrell, American born 1929. Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia
No yearning for an afterlife, no looking beyond, no belittling of death,
Sixteen Waterfalls of Dreams, Memories, and Sentiment. 1990, oil on canvas.
Pat Steir, American born 1940. Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY
but only longing for what belongs to us
and serving earth, lest we remain unused
The Monet Family at their Garden in Argenteuil, 1874, oil on canvas.
Edouard Manet, 1832-1883, French. Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY
and serving earth, lest we remain unused
Jan’s Garden in July, 2018, oil on linen.
Scott Noel, American born 1955, oil on linen. Exhibited, courtesy of the actor’s gallery, at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia
and serving earth, lest we remain unused
Botanists take a Core Sample of a 350 ft. Redwood Tree, Redwood National Park, California.
Photograph taken by Michael (Nick) Nichols, 2008. On display at the Philadelphia Art Museum, summer of 2017
and serving earth, lest we remain unused
Untitled, 2020, bronze.
Henry Taylor, American born 1956. Loaned by the artist to the Whitney Museum, NY in 2023
and serving earth, lest we remain unused
Tiger, 1940, oil on canvas.
Morris Hirschfield, 1872-19446, American born Poland. ?Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY
and serving earth, lest we remain unused.
The Source of Life, oil on canvas, 1890.
Léon Frédéric, 1856-1940, Belgian. Philadelphia Art Museum
The museum notes that the Symbolist painter is representing hope and a new world: children emerging from a life-giving stream flowing through a fertile world.
