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by Pamela Miller Ness and Michael Dylan Welch
Second prize winner in the 2004 Haiku Poets of Northern California rengay contest. First published in Mariposa #12, Spring–Summer 2005, page 24. Written by email from November 2003 to March 2004. Each verse is based on a painting in the National Academy of Design in New York City. Paintings presented for reference only. See this ekphrastic rengay without the paintings.
overflowing
its cut-glass vase
La Farge’s magnolia Pamela
John Lewis Frederick Joseph La Farge
ANA 1863; NA 1869
Magnolia Blossom, n.d.
Oil on composition board, 11 x 8 7/8 in.
NA diploma presentation, June 7, 1869 (721-P)
Homer’s croquet player
hides a ball with her skirt Michael
Winslow Homer
ANA 1864; NA 1865
Croquet Player, n. d.
Oil on canvas, 8¼ x 12 in.
NA diploma presentation, May 7, 1866 (590-P)
strewn across
her studio table
Nell Blaine’s turnips Pamela
[image of Nell Blaine painting is not available]
the unused pencils . . .
Jacob Lawrence grins
in his self-portrait Michael
Jacob Lawrence
ANA 1971; NA 1979
Self Portrait, 1977
Gouache on paper,
22 1/8 x 30 in. (sheet)
ANA diploma presentation, 1977
Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence
Courtesy of the Jacob and Gwendolyn Lawrence Foundation (1977.15)
gathering hollyhocks
Frieseke’s woman in blue Pamela
Frederick Carl Frieseke
ANA 1912; NA 1914
Hollyhocks, n.d.
Oil on canvas, 25½ x 32 in.
NA diploma presentation,
November 2, 1914 (479-P)
to the porch born . . .
the precise signature
on Blum’s two idlers Michael
Robert Frederick Blum
ANA 1888; NA 1893
Two Idlers, [1888–89]
Oil on canvas, 29 x 40 in.
NA diploma presentation,
March 26, 1894 (108-P)
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