Roger and Angelica
Odilon Redon
1910, oil on paper, on canvas
Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York City
Dillard Sissman by EDGAR LEE MASTERS The buzzards wheel slowly In wide circles, in a sky Faintly hazed as from dust from the road. And a wind sweeps through the pasture where I lie Beating the grass into long waves. My kite is above the wind, Though now and then it wobbles, Like a man shaking his shoulders; And … Read more
by VINCENT VAN GOGH who wrote to his brother Theo about this painting in 1888: