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“To classify an intuitively bold and technically deft artist like Mary Hiester Reid as a poetry-reading lady flower painter in a high collar misses the fact that she slipped that collar at every opportunity, and when she couldn't, wore it with stately dignity.”

Propriety Woman Artist Still Lifes

Book:Flower Diary: In Which Mary Hiester Reid Paints, Travels, Marries & Opens a Door

Source: Flower Diary: In Which Mary Hiester Reid Paints, Travels, Marries & Opens a Door

“Bartholomeus went on, 'I wanted to show that these objects are sensitive, suffer at the coming of night, faint at the departure of the last rays, which, by the way, also live in this room; they suffer as much, they fight against the darkness. There you have it. It's the life of things, if you like. The French would call it a nature morte, a picture of inanimate objects. That is not what I'm trying to show. Flemish puts it better: a still life.”

Painting Still Life Still Lifes

Book:The Bells of Bruges

Source: The Bells of Bruges

“Offerings gleam beneath consecrated trees, boulders, and caves where Kami nature spirits minister to congregations of saki cans, lotus root, and the glow of tangerines; still-lives silent as prayer.”

Poetry Nature Japan Farmers Gods Spirits Offerings Still Lifes Shintoism

Book:The Wishing Bones

Source: The Wishing Bones