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1.
For
Grace, After Party (external)
--This poem was written for Grace Hartigan, a visual artist
and friend of O'Hara.
--Hartigan and O'Hara collaborated on a series of paintings
called "Oranges" in which Hartigan included parts of
O'Hara's poem
"Oranges" in her
series of paintings. The two paintings on the right are from
this series. Both are from Grace
Hartigan: A
Painter's World
by Robert Saltonstall Mattison (New York:
Hudson Hills P, 1990)
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Oranges
#4
(The Changing Dialectics of Our World) |
Oranges #6
(The Light Only Reaches Halfway) |
2. "On Seeing
Larry Rivers' Washington Crossing the Delaware at the Museum of Modern Art" (external)
--As the title indicates,
this poem is based upon a painting by the artist Larry
Rivers.
--Comment
by O'Hara on Larry Rivers (external)
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Washington Crossing the
Delaware (1953)
by Larry
Rivers, Oil on canvas, approximately 7 feet x 9 feet.
The Museum of
Modern Art, New York City.
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3. Joseph Cornell
This is from A Festschrift for Joseph Cornell. |
Toward
the Blue Peninsula 1951-52 (120 Kb); Construction,
10 5/8 x 14 15/16 x 3 15/16 in; collection Daniel Varenne,
Geneva from the WebMuseum
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--This box is about the artist Joseph
Cornell who created wooden box constructions which O'Hara
greatly admired.
--Site with biography of
the surrealist artist Joseph Cornell and examples of some
of his box constructions <Click>
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Joseph Cornell
This photo is
from:
http://enteract.com/%7Edevylder/Dossier/dossierFrame.html |
4. Digression
on Number 1, 1948 (external)
--This poem is based on Number 1 (1948)
by Jackson Pollack. Pollack was an
abstract expressionist painter known for his
action paintings and drip paintings.
--An introduction to abstract
expressionism can be found at the following site <Click>
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Number 1 (1948) by Jackson Pollack |
5. The Day Lady
Died
--This is an elegy for Billie
Holliday.
--A "Lady Day" site devoted to
Holiday and her jazz music
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photo credit: William P. Gottlieb
It's from the site |
6. Ave
Maria (external)
7. Lana Turner
has collapsed!
| --"The Lana Turner Page," a site with
filmography and links of Lana Turner <Click>
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The photo is from Brad Gooch's
City Life: The Life and Times of Frank O'Hara (New
York: Knopf, 1993) 
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