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David Schorr
A time in love with easeful death
1992
Graphite, white pastel worked wet, silverpoint on paper.
20 1/4 x 27 5/8 inches (51.4 x 70.1 cm)
Gift of the estate of David Schorr.
2023.41
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Signed lower right.
Hand-written text reads: "a time in love with easeful death"
Easeful Death is accompanied by the following text in the SONGS with a dying fall: works on paper and canvas by David Schorr catalog, Mary Ryan Gallery catalog from 1994: Excerpt from John Keats' Ode to a Nightingale: Darkling, I listen; and for a many a time / I have been half in love with easeful Death / Called him soft names in many a mused rhyme, / To take into the air my quiet breath; / Now more than ever seems it rich to die, / To cease upon the midnight with no pain / While thou art pouring forth thy soul abroad / In such a ecstasy! / Still wouldst thou sing, and I have ears in vain- / To thy high requiem become a sod.
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