
Charles Bird King, Still Life on a Green Tablecloth, c. 1815, oil, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts
One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
Although early American artist Charles Bird King (1785-1862) was a skilled still-life painter, he is primarily remembered today for his portraits of Native-Americans. A Room of One’s Own by British writer Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) was her declaration for a woman’s right to pursue creative freedom.
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