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In the Foreground: Conversations on Art & Writing“A Picture of Resilience”: Ashley Lazevnick on Charles Demuth’s "Red Poppies"A still life, like a poem, may be charged with private meaning, and yet it is offered like a gift that the viewer may open for themselves, not unlike the delicate unfurling of a flower. Charles Demuth’s watercolor Red Poppies of 1929 exemplifies this exchange in the way it pictures how vulnerability may still be resilient, as expressed in a contemporaneous poem by Williams Carlos Williams that meditates on loss.
2022-02-0110 min