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Today we're tying up the chapter on Patterns and there's some lovely food for thought in those final few pages. Repetition - much of my own domestic life has followed a repetitive pattern and though circumstances or an environment may change there are certain things which do not. I laughed many years ago as a fellow homeschool mum voiced her frustration about the continual routine of washing clothes - "no matter how satisfied you feel when all the washing is done and hung on the line, you wake up next day and there's the next mountain of it waiting for you to start the same process over again. It's the same with dishes but they don't even wait a day!" I'd laughed because she had two children and I'd birthed seven but my initial response of "girl, you have no idea how much washing you don't have" was left unspoken because I remembered back to the birth of my second baby and having two in nappies (cloth) and the realisation that a revolving door from washing machine to the clothesline seemed to swing endlessly round and round. Regardless of how many children, how many family members, how many visitors - repetitive trips to the washing machine and the clothesline are indeed a very needful and integral part of the gentle domestic life, which is why I very much like the quote from Jane used in my top photo. "The world of domesticity is a microcosm with its own, inescapable 'diurnal round', and a great part of the gentle art of domesticity is an acceptance and then a valuing of repetition." (page 110) I quickly came to value the gift of motherhood but the gift of ever increasing housework took time to grow. But given time you realise it IS a gift, to have people to care for, to have the ability to LOVE not just in words and emotionally, but as a verb, as a doing thing, in acts of giving time and energy and patience and acceptance for the repetitions. Now let's see what Jane has to say this week. THE SOCK KNITTER Once again Jane takes us on a journey through art and today we're looking at three wonderful paintings which highlight the knitting of socks. The Sock Knitter (1915) by Grace Cossington Smith "...her eyes look down as she focuses on the tiny stitches and the memorised pattern. She is a wonderful subject for painters..." (page 108) Daisy Knitting (1943) etching on paper by Edgar Holloway "...soft blurred lines...seem to suggest that although Daisy is physically present, she cannot be captured fully as her mind is freed by the gentle, meditative rhythms of her knitting." (page 108) The Purple Stocking (1919) by James Jebusa Shannon "The girl looks so fresh and young, yet calm and confident with her knitting...the modern domestic angel knits socks, it says, and not in dreary drudgery, but with a spirit of bohemian beauty..." (page 108) THE DIURNAL ROUND I had to look up that word so in case you're also wondering what diurnal means - "Any pattern that recurs daily" "...we can choose to be a part of, or apart from, this kind of repetition, because no matter what we do, the world will still keep turning." (page 110) "Although I admit that I'll never be thrilled with many aspects of repetitive housework, I have discovered some more pleasurable domestic patterns that...I am happy to repeat." (page 110) Jane then goes on to discuss the way a new project can have a repetitive rhythm between the excitement of starting and the delight in finishing - one reason why we, as crafters, repeat the process over and over, finding the pattern of making both therapeutic and blissfully zoning out. SUNSHINE AFTER THE RAIN QUILT "Ever since quilts first attracted my attention...I have been fascinated by log cabin quilts. I love...the endless permutations of patterns...I also like the fact that each block represents a home. Thus a log cabin quilt makes up a whole community of cabins or homes in a pleasing fusion of creativity and domesticity." (page 112) Jane's "Sunshine After the Rain" quilt is made up of forty-nine log cabin blocks in tones of yellow and grey, depicting England's constant pattern of sunshine and rain all through the year She added the fiery orange centres to represent a warm hearth. This is her son Tom's favourite quilt as it was he who helped to bring all the blocks together into one rather beautiful flow which showed rays of yellow sunshine with grey diagonals of slanting rain. Must admit, I'm rather inspired by this quilt myself. "Just as night comes after day and sunshine after rain, so a log cabin comes to every quilter." (page 112) We're reading pages 114 - 125 next. * Let's consider repetition in a gentle domestic life this week, so with that in mind share in the comments below (or in your own linked blog post) the challenges and delights you have found as a homemaker. NOTE: Next book study post will be May 14th. I'm taking a two-week break from this book study as our home is being repaired after the January floods and whilst workmen are here for seven days, starting tomorrow, I'll hide away in the sewing room to complete "Phyllis May's Kitchen" and leave them to the dusty mess. FREE PATTERN & GIVEAWAY I'll share the free May pattern and announce the next giveaway in Thursday's (2nd May) blog post as I'm still deciding what to share with you...decisions, decisions. Every week in the Tuesday book study post I'm encouraging readers and lovers of the gentle domestic life who have a current blog and have blogged about Living the Gentle Domestic Life this year to link their relevant weekly book study post for others to come by, visit their blogs and be inspired. Please do not link to the same post on your blog each week. Your posts should be new and relevant to the current week's study. NOTE: If your link is advertising or not a true reflection of the heart for living a gentle domestic life it will be deleted. Bless you heaps,
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Portrait of Elizabeth Astor Winthrop Chanler by John Singer Sargent, 1893 US, Smithsonian Museum of American Art
John Singer Sargent (1866 - 1925) was an American artist, considered the "leading portrait painter of his generation" for his evocation of Edwardian era luxury. During his career he created approximately 900 oil paintings and more than 2000 watercolours, as well as countless sketches and charcoal drawings. His oeuvre documents worldwide travel, from Venice to the Tyrol, Corfu, the Middle East, Montana, Maine and Florida, amongst others. For full biographical notes see part 1. For earlier works see parts 1 - 10 also. This is part 11 of a 23-part post on the works of John Singer Sargent: 1899 Miss Carey Thomas oil on canvas 147.3 x 96.5 cm Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, PA 1899 Mrs Joshua Montgomery Sears oil on canvas 96.8 x 47.6 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas 1899 Mrs. Edmond Kelly oil on canvas 111.8 x 81.3 cm Fitchburg Art Museum, MA 1899 Nettie Huxley, Daughter of Professor Thomas Henry Huxley graphite on ivory paper mounted on board 20.4 x 14.7 cm Harvard Art Museums - Fogg Museum, Cambridge, MA 1899 The Wyndham Sisters oil on canvas 292.1 x 213.7 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 1899c Edward Augustus Silsbee charcoal 63.5 x 45.7 cm Bodleian Library, Oxford, UK 1900 Charles Arthur Russell, Baron Russell of Killowen oil on canvas 85.1 x 71.1 cm © National Portrait Gallery, London 1900 Charlotte Cram oil on canvas 88.5 x 61 cm Private Collection 1900 Dorothy Williamson oil on canvas 61.3 x 50.2 cm Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas 1900 Earl of Dalhousie oil on canvas 152.4 x 101.6 cm Private Collection 1900 Elizabeth Garrett Anderson oil on canvas 83.8 x 66 cm Private Collection 1900 Harley Granville-Barker chalk 61.6 x 47.6 cm © National Portrait Gallery, London 1900 Lady with Parasol watercolour 53 x 40 cm Abbey of Montserrat 1900c Sketch of Lady Russell graphite on paper 22.8 x 9.2 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA 1900 The Honourable Mrs. Charles Russell oil on canvas 104.8 x 73.7 cm Private Collection 1908 Mrs Charles Russell oil on canvas 106.5 x 77 cm Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid 1900 Sir David Richmond oil on canvas 147.3 x 96.5 cm Glasgow Art Gallery and Museum, Scotland 1900 Sir David Richmond oil on canvas 243.8 x 134.6 cm Glasgow Art Gallery and Museum, Scotland 1900 The Sitwell Family oil on canvas 170 x 193 cm Sir Reresby Sitwell Bt. 1900c Head of a Model oil on canvas 61 x 45.7 cm Private Collection 1900c Head of a Model oil on canvas 76.8 x 63.5 cm Manchester Art Gallery, UK 1900c Head of a Young Man oil on canvas 44.5 x 24.1 cm Private Collection 1900c Head of an Italian Model oil on canvas 71.1 x 55.9 cm Private Collection 1900c Italian with a Rope oil on canvas 61 x 47.7 cm Private Collection 1901 At Pompeii watercolour 24.8 x 34.9 cm Private Collection 1901 Dame Ethel Mary Smyth black chalk 59.7 x 46 cm © National Portrait Gallery, London 1901 Ellen Peabody Endicott oil on canvas 162.9 x 114.3 cm National Gallery of Art Washington, DC exhibited 1901 Professor Ingram Bywater oil on canvas 147.4 x 92.2 cm Tate, London 1901 In Norway graphite, watercolour and gouache on paper 25.4 x 35.6 cm Private Collection 1901 On his Holidays oil on canvas 135.9 x 242.6 cm Lady Lever Art Gallery, Port Sunlight, UK 1901 Salmon River watercolour on paper 25.3 x 35.4 cm Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York 1901-08 Rushing Water graphite, watercolour and gouache on wove paper 35.6 x 25.2 cm The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 1901c A Torrent in Norway oil on canvas 56.8 x 75.6 cm Private Collection 1901c Study of Salmon graphite and watercolour on paper 24.8 x 34.9 cm Private Collection 1901c Study of Salmon graphite and watercolour on paper 31.1 x 47 cm Private Collection 1901c Study of Salmon in Norway oil on canvas 78.1 x 55.9 cm Private Collection 1901c Study of Salmon watercolour on paper 25.4 x 35.6 cm Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, MO 1901 John Ridgely Carter oil on canvas 85.1 x 67.3 cm Private Collection 1901 Study for "Mrs. Cazalet and her Children" graphite and charcoal on wove paper 22.9 x 29.7 cm Harvard Art Museums - Fogg Museum, Cambridge, MA 1901 Mrs. Cazalet and her Children oil on canvas 254 x 165 cm Private Collection 1901 Mrs. Edward Goetz oil on canvas 148.6 x 106.7 cm Brigham Young University, Museum of Fine Arts, Provo, Utah 1901 Sir Charles Loch oil on canvas 87.1 x 64.7 cm National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh, UK 1901 The Penitent Magdalene ( after Van Dyck ) watercolour on paper 38.1 x 34.3 cm British Museum, London *see below Anthony van Dyck "The Penitent Magdalene" oil on canvas 169 x 148 cm 1620-35 Rijksmueum, Amsterdam 1901-03c A Spanish Barracks graphite and watercolour on paper 30.2 x 45.4 cm Private Collection 1901-05c Near Versailles graphite, watercolour and gouache on paper 34.9 x 24.1 cm Private Collection 1901-07 Mediterranean Landscape oil on board 48.9 x 61.6 cm Private Collection 1901c Captain John Spicer oil on canvas 160 x 99.8 cm Private Collection 1901c Edith French oil on canvas 60.9 x 45.7 cm Private Collection 1901c Etna watercolour on paper 31.4 x 46.7 cm Private Collection 1901c Girgenti ( Agrigento ), Sicily graphite and watercolour on paper 31.1 x 46.4 cm Private Collection 1901c In Sicily graphite and watercolour on paper 31.8 x 47 cm The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 1901c Palace Façade, Girgenti graphite and watercolour on paper 25.4 x 17.2 cm Private Collection 1901c View in Sicily oil on canvas 55.9 x 69.9 cm Private Collection 1901c Lady Meysey-Thompson oil on canvas 160 x 100 cm Private Collection 1901c Papyrus watercolour on paper 25.2 x 35.6 cm Private Collection 1901c Roses graphite, watercolour and gouache on paper 35.6 x 25.4 cm Private Collection 1901c Study of a Nude Boy oil on canvas 46.4 x 36.8 cm Private Collection 1901c Venus graphite and watercolour on paper 34.3 x 24.1 cm Private Collection 1902 Alice Wernher oil on canvas 1902 Antonio Mancini oil on canvas 66.7 x 50.2 cm Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Rome 1902 Campo Dei Gesuiti watercolour on paper 34.9 x 50.2 cm Private Collection 1902 Evelyn Baring, 1st Earl of Cromer oil on canvas 148.8 x 98.4 cm © National Portrait Gallery, London 1902 Evelyn, Duchess of Devonshire oil on canvas 147.3 x 91.4 cm Chatsworth House Trust, Derbyshire 1902 George Frederick McCorquodale oil on canvas 146 x 95.2 cm Private Collection 1902 Lord Ribblesdale oil on canvas 258.4 x 143.5 cm The National Gallery, London 1902 Marian ( Madge ) Roller oil on canvas 61 x 45.7 cm Private Collection 1902 Mrs Leopold Hirsch oil on canvas 145 x 90 cm Tate, London 1902 Mrs Philip Leslie Agnew oil on canvas 90.8 x 74.3 cm Tate, London 1902 Mrs. Charles Hunter charcoal on paper 60.33 x 46.7 cm Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, NY 1902 Mrs. Charles Hunter in a Gondola watercolour on paper 45.7 x 30.5 cm Private Collection
Ars longa, vita brevis
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John William Waterhouse était un peintre britannique néoclassique et préraphaëlite, célèbre pour ses tableaux de femmes inspirés de la my...
