Category Archives: art

The Hotohoto Festival at the Great Shrine in Izumo Province

No. 42 from the series Pictures of Famous Places in the Sixty-odd Provinces Ichiryusai Hiroshige, 1853, woodblock print Gibbes Museum of Art

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Mrs. Abraham Crouch (Sophia Jane Withers)

Artist: Unknown American Date: ca. 1805 Medium: watercolor The young wife of Abraham Crouch, Sophia died at age twenty-one and is buried in St. Philip’s churchyard. The portrait was probably painted ca. 1805 when Sophia was in her teens. Gibbes … Continue reading

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Shattered

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The Blue Dress Address 3

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Salome

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The Blue Dress Address

The blue dress address Scripted across you   Neck line edge Cut low drawn From a sapphire sheath   Hem line detailing A body recovered From an azure fuselage   A biped embedded In high heels A curvilinear graduated Cylinder … Continue reading

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Driveway

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Love To Me 2

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Eve

GISLEBERTUS c. 1130 Stone Musée Rolin, Autun

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The Blue Dress

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