The video I really wanted to share with you won't allow embedding, so I'll link to it here, in the remote chance that there is anyone else out there who is a Sam Phillips fan. She is this Sam Phillips, no this Sam Phillips. It gets a little confusing...
Here is a video I did find by Sam Phillips for a song off the album Martinis and Bikinis, from 1994.
Tonight's nudes feature contains images I found just today, so I am displaying them with no particular theme, mood or common thread. There is smattering of Modigliani.
Arthur B. Davies,
Rhythms, ca. 1910
Oil on canvas. Milwaukee Art Museum
Robert Henri
Another of The Eight
Milwaukee Art Museum
The Eight- A group of American painters who united to oppose various traditions upheld by the National Academy. They exhibited together only once — in 1908, but the effect of their gesture was to strengthen the advance of modernism in the United States. The Eight included five painters associated with the Ashcan school: Robert Henri (1865-1929), George Luks (1867-1933), William Glackens (1870-1938), John Sloan (1871-1951), and Everett Shinn (1876-1953), along with Maurice Prendergast (1859-1924), Ernest Lawson (1873-1939), and Arthur Bowen Davies (1862-1928).
"When the Amherst sphinx styled herself a pagan, she meant she didn’t believe in the biblical God. What sort of deity, if any, she did believe in is hard to pinpoint." -- Gary Sloan, "Emily Dickinson: Pagan Sphinx,"
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