SEEING CREATIVELY
AMONG THE BUTTERCUPS
Willard Metcalf, Buttercup Time, 1920, oil on canvas, Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah, Georgia
Could I But Ride Indefinite
As doth the meadow-bee,
And visit only when I liked,
And no man visit me.
And flirt all day with buttercups,
And marry whom I may,
And dwell a little everywhere,
Or better, run away.*
Emily Dickinson
Both American Impressionist Willard Metcalf (1858-1925) and poet Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) were born in Massachusetts in the nineteenth century. Chronologically a generation apart, the two New Englanders expressed a deep love of nature through their individual art forms.
*Excerpt from Could I But Ride Indefinite.
To learn more about Metcalf, click:
American Impressionist Willard Metcalf and A Child in Sunlight
Or to view additional Dickinson verse, click:
Birds in Art–A Child and a Goldfinch, Signs of Hope
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