Robert Dash, Amagansett Spring, 1966-67.
David Hockney, Woldgate Woods, 2006
Fairfield Porter’s sketch for the cover of James Schuyler’s Hymn to Life.
A cardinal
Passes like a flying tulip, alights and nails the green day
Down. One flame in a fire of sea-soaked, copper-fed wood:
A red that leaps from green and holds it there. Reluctantly
The plane tree, always late, as though from age, opens up and
Hangs its seed balls out. The apples flower. The pear is past.
Winter is suddenly so far away, behind, ahead. From the train
A stand of coarse grass in fuzzy flower. Is it for miracles
We live? I like it when the morning sun lights up my room
Like a yellow jelly bean, an inner glow. May mutters, “Why
Ask questions?” or, “What are the questions you wish to ask?”
—James Schuyler, “Hymn to Life” (1974)
Albert York, Flowers in Glass Jar, 1971. Oil on plywood, 10 1/2 x 8 3/8 inches.
Albert York, Blue Anemones in Glass Jar, 1968. Oil on plywood, 14 x 11 inches.
Wolf Kahn, Against a Yellow Rise, 2013. Oil on canvas, 64 x 84 inches.
Wolf Kahn, Orchard in the Spring, 2012. Oil on canvas, 32 x 18 inches.
Wayne Thiebaud, Cut Meringues, 1961. Oil on canvas, 16 x 20 inches.
Wayne Thiebaud, Girl with Ice Cream Cone, 1963. Oil on canvas, 48 1/8 x 36 1/4 inches.
Larry Rivers and Kenneth Koch, In Bed, 1982. Mixed media, 48 x 84 inches.
