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“Whoever does not move among works of art as if among dangerous animals does not know among what he moves.” — Nicolás Gómez Dávila
Tom Lea  Sarah in the Summertime, c. 1947, oil on canvas, 69” x 28” Collection of Dr. James D. Lea, Houston, Texas “I had a snapshot of Sarah which I carried in my wallet during the whole war. It was a good picture of her, taken in the sunlight in our back yard on Raynolds Boulevard. I looked at it, homesick, all over the world. When the war was over, the first painting I began was a full-length life size portrait of Sarah in the same dress, the same pose, the same light as the little snapshot. It was a painter’s votive offering made in the gladness of being home.” —Tom Lea, A Picture Gallery, Boston: Little Brown and Company, p. 98.

Tom Lea 

Sarah in the Summertime, c. 1947, oil on canvas, 69” x 28”

Collection of Dr. James D. Lea, Houston, Texas

“I had a snapshot of Sarah which I carried in my wallet during the whole war. It was a good picture of her, taken in the sunlight in our back yard on Raynolds Boulevard. I looked at it, homesick, all over the world. When the war was over, the first painting I began was a full-length life size portrait of Sarah in the same dress, the same pose, the same light as the little snapshot.

It was a painter’s votive offering made in the gladness of being home.”

—Tom Lea, A Picture Gallery, Boston: Little Brown and Company, p. 98.

July 24, 2012  9:59 am  
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