el laberinto

Flannery O’Connor, “A View of the Woods,” 1956

John Glenn, “Interview with Life Magazine on First American Earth Orbit,” c. 1962

William Carlos Williams, Flowers by the Sea, 1938

Eyvind Earle, Sunlight, 1985 (via collection)

Eyvind Earle, Pastures in Early Spring, c. 1990 (via collection)

Istvan Orosz, Absence, 2004

George Inness, The Rainbow, c. 1878

George Inness, In the Roman Campagna, Italy, 1873

Barry Jackson, Hivehaus, Skelmersdale, England, 2013

Enrique Simonet, The Judgement of Paris, 1904

Brian Nolan, Ancient Landscapes, Crete, Greece, 1980

Thomas Cole, The Course of Empire: The Arcadian or Pastoral State, 1834

"In the second painting, The Arcadian or Pastoral State, the sky has cleared and we are in the fresh morning of a day in spring or early summer. The viewpoint has shifted further down the river, as the crag with the boulder is now on the left-hand side of the painting; a forked peak can be seen in the distance beyond it. Much of the wilderness has given way to settled lands, with plowed fields and lawns visible. Various activities go on in the background: plowing, boat-building, herding sheep, dancing; in the foreground, an old man sketches what may be a geometrical problem with a stick. On a bluff on the near side of the river, a megalithic temple has been built, and smoke (presumably from sacrifices) arises from it. The images reflect an idealized, pre-urban ancient Greece."