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Joseph Cornell loved the glamour that came with Tony Curtis's visits, but was not a fan of Curtis's own art, especially when it showed any Cornell-like traits.
Gypsy Prince, a print from 1992, is one of Curtis's best works, & it has an obvious Cornell influence.
Max Beerbohm
Walt Whitman, Inciting the Bird of Freedom to Soar
Illustration from The Poets' Corner, 1904
Remembering Walt Whitman on his birthday 🎂
🎨 Thomas Eakins, c.1887
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"One Whitman is miracle enough, and when he comes again it will be the end of the world."
- Randall Jarrell, from "Some Lines from Whitman"
My favourite Teresa Stratas recording: her 1981 Nonesuch album "The Unknown Kurt Weill".
The cover photograph is by Beth Bergman
https://t.co/9v8S6Xr72z
"You've got to work with your mistakes until they look intended. Understand?"
- Raymond Carver
Illustration by Ruth Gwily
Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh (Heroes of our Time – 9)
Ronald Searle, January 23, 1957
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Mary Cassatt
At the Theater, c. 1879
pastel on paper
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City
The Kentucky Derby "sketched with eyebrow pencil and lipstick by Ralph Steadman", from The Kentucky Derby is Decadent and Depraved, "written under duress by Hunter S. Thompson," Scanlan's, June, 1970