—: October in Illinois :—
October— A blood-red line, Low in the western sky— Grey everywhere— Cold and clear The frozen yellow fields— Nearness and distance interchangeable— A single rabbit-hawk Rapidly and sharply Winging its way Into the twilight.
Helen Birch-Bartlett (1883-1925)
P: Poetry (1920+); A: Anthology of Magazine Verse (1923); C: Capricious Winds (1927), etc.
“A Chicago poet and musician, resident this winter in New York.” (Poetry, 1920) Married the artist Frederich Clay Bartlett. Together, they were well-known modern art collectors; “The Birch-Bartlett collection of modern paintings has been presented to the Art Institute by Bartlett in memory of his wife, and is to be known as the Helen Birch Bartlett Memorial. This group of pictures has been on exhibition in the galleries several times in the past and is well known to all students of the modern movement.” The collection included Georges Seurat's now famous 'A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte', alongside works by Paul Gauguin, Vincent van Gogh, Henri Matisse, Paul Cézanne, André Derain, et al. (Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago, 1926)
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