Thursday, November 19, 2009
Apotheosis of the Rose
Have to go all the way to Iowa, the Salisbury House in Des Moines, to view this Joseph Stella painting. Decorative, spiritual, fanciful, & modern at the same time - & painted in 1928.
"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be." Thomas Jefferson
Labels: culture