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John Massey, The Force "The Force that through the green fuse drives the flower/Drives my green age; that blasts the roots of trees/Is my destroyer./And I am dumb to tell the crooked rose/My youth is bent by the same wintry fever." --Dylan Thomas, Collected Poems, , 1966, oil on canvas, 30 x 30 3⁄8 in. (76.2 x 77.1 cm.), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Container Corporation of America, 1984.124.199
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Artwork Details
- Title
- The Force “The Force that through the green fuse drives the flower/Drives my green age; that blasts the roots of trees/Is my destroyer./And I am dumb to tell the crooked rose/My youth is bent by the same wintry fever.” –Dylan Thomas, Collected Poems, 1939. From the series Great Ideas of Western Man.
- Artist
- Date
- 1966
- Location
- Not on view
- Dimensions
- 30 x 30 3⁄8 in. (76.2 x 77.1 cm.)
- Credit Line
- Gift of Container Corporation of America
- Mediums
- Mediums Description
- oil on canvas
- Classifications
- Keywords
- Abstract — geometric
- Allegory — quality — fortitude
- Object — foliage
- Object Number
- 1984.124.199