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A Painter Of Mild Renown

from Special Delivery by The Ekphrastics

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He was a landscape painter of some repute
You can find his work in this or that institute
But not on the walls ― there isn’t the room
It’s offsite in a climate-controlled art-filled tomb
Along with a loom and some rare tapestries that no one ever sees

He was a landscape painter of mild renown
He won best in show in Tuckahoe or some such town
Depicting fishermen’s shanties and lobster traps
Nautical scenes of stormy seas and ships with masts
Drying cod! Harvesting sod!

As the corresponding secretary of a local artist’s guild
His plans to expand to a permanent home unfulfilled

He was a landscape painter, regarded well
In New Rochelle, I think it was, it’s hard to tell
Documentation can be sparse
With postwar representational art
The landscape was changing; all the more reason for painting

As the corresponding secretary of a local artist’s guild
His plans for a grand career retrospective unfilled

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from Special Delivery, released April 22, 2023

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I ran Harriet Records between 1989 and 1998 out of Cambridge, MA. I released 10 CDs (most of which are available here) and 45 singles. There are 11 "new" releases so far, most recently the Coronets (London, ca 2000) and Kisswhistle (Pittsburgh). New releases next year by Chris Barickman, the Lookout Honeys, and a follow-up Ekphrastics CD!
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