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Oil on Canvas (5)
Kathryn Arnold

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V “I do not know which to prefer…
 the blackbird whistling
Or just after.”
From 13 Ways of looking at a Blackbird by Wallace Stevens
oil on canvas
KCAI painting, sold KC
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16 x 16 unframed
I > Among twenty snowy mountains, > The only moving thing > Was the eye of the blackbird. > (-Wallace Stevens)
oil on canvas
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16 x 16 unframed
II > I was of three minds, > Like a tree > In which there are three blackbirds. > >(-Wallace Stevens)
oil on canvas
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16 x 16 unframed
III > The blackbird whirled in the autumn winds. > It was a small part of the pantomime. > >(-Wallace Stevens)
oil on canvas
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16 x 16 unframed
V > I do not know which to prefer, > The beauty of inflections > Or the beauty of innuendoes, > The blackbird whistling > Or just after. > >(-Wallace Stevens)
oil on canvas
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VI > Icicles filled the long window > With barbaric glass. > The shadow of the blackbird > Crossed it, to and fro. > The mood > Traced in the shadow > An indecipherable cause. You will accept and I will question? > >(-Wallace Stevens)
oil on canvas
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16 x 16 unframed
IX > When the blackbird flew out of sight, > It marked the edge > Of one of many circles. > >(-Wallace Stevens)
oil on canvas
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X > At the sight of blackbirds > Flying in a green light, > Even the bawds of euphony > Would cry out sharply. > >(-Wallace Stevens)
oil on canvas
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XII > The river is moving. > The blackbird must be flying. > >(-Wallace Stevens)
oil on canvas
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. > > IV > ... A man and a woman and a blackbird > Are one. > This is good >
(-Wallace Stevens)
oil on canvas
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VII > ... > Whyt do you imagine golden birds? > Do you not see how the blackbird > Walks around the feet > Of the women about you? > >
(-Wallace Stevens)
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16 x 16 unframed
VIII > I know noble accents > And lucid, inescapable rhythms; > But I know, too, > That the blackbird is involved > In what I know. > >
(-Wallace Stevens)
acrylic on canvas
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16 x 16 unframed
> XI > He rode over Connecticut > In a glass coach. > Once, a fear pierced him, > In that he mistook > The shadow of his equipage > For blackbirds. > >
(-Wallace Stevens)
oil on canvas
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> > XIII > It was evening all afternoon. > It was snowing > And it was going to snow. > The blackbird sat > In the cedar-limbs. > > -Wallace Stevens
oil on canvas
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