Ann Dancing

Ann Dancing - Indianapolis, IN at the corner of Massachusetts Avenue

Jay Hall Connaway

Monhegan, 1937

Rays and Agitated Sea, 1967

Church, Sunderland, Vermont

Blue Sea and Rocks, Maine

Marcia Gygli King

Botanical Series 2

Mixed Flowers With Yellow Roses

Sun in an Empty Room, 1963 By Edward Hopper

"Woman Before an Aquarium" by Henri Matisse

"Woman Before an Aquarium" by Henri Matisse
(http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/artwork/27984)

In Bocca al Lupo by Beth Cavener. 
You can find more of her stuff here. I'm a big fan. 

Jean-Michel Basquiat

"Untitled" (1981)

Trumpet (1984)

“Untitled (Two Heads on Gold),” (1982)

Scull

Fallen Angel

Eyes and Eggs (1983)

Now's the Time

"Untitled" by Abbott H. Thayer

"Oil on Paper, 18 x 24" by Ryan Coleman

This painting has some beautiful quality on which I can't quite put my finger. I'm hoping some poetry comes out of this! (Go Team Abstract!)

http://ryancolemanstudio.tumblr.com/post/104843264592/oil-on-paper-18x24-ryan-coleman-2014

"Guernica" by Pablo Picasso

My first poem was written about Guernica! It is an awesome piece by Picasso that depicts a violent scene from the Spanish Civil War. I would recommend reading more about this painting if you're interested!

Thomas Crawford, "Statue of Freedom"

"Our Lady of the Rocks" by Leonardo

"Peele Castle in a Storm" by Sir George Beaumont, friend of William Wordsworth

To accompany Keats's "Ode on a Grecian Urn," though this is not the urn he wrote about.

As promised, a picture of Stan Plumly.  Resemblance to Whistler's Carlyle?

James McNeill Whistler: Arrangement in Gray and Black, #1 and #2 (aka "Whistler's Mother," and "Portrait of Carlyle").
c.f. "After Whistler" by Stanley Plumly

Caravaggio: David with the Head of Goliath
c.f. Larry Levis: "Caravaggio: Swirl and Vortex"

Welcome to the Blog for our graduate seminar called Relatives or Rivals: Poetry and Visual Art.