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...romantic poetry -the rare sound of a horse's hoofs clopping past his father's lonely farm at night, the screaming, exotic peacocks at the neighboring manor house, the 1,200-year-old parish church that still bore, on the sundial over its porch, the Saxon inscription: THIS IS DÆGES SOL MERCA ÆT ILCVMTIDE (This is the day's sun mark at every tide). And when Read was nine years old, a glass jar filled with "black, blind and sinister leeches" was carried upstairs to his dying father's bedroom...
From Sunset to Smear. Recently Maurice Sterne made the porch of his Provincetown cottage into a studio, and concentrated his attention on the sea out front. His new paintings were as salty and wet as the breakers, and they had the same compelling evanescence; each one seemed made of wind, water and light, ready to shatter and collapse in an instant...
...catalogue introduction, Sterne tried to explain how it happened: "My renaissance," he wrote, "took place about three years ago. ... I was too ill to work and was admiring my view from the porch; the incoming tide, the crimson and orange and gold of the sunset, the delicate nuances . . . when suddenly, nature ceased to be nature and became a wet painting. This sensation was so real, that when a sea gull suddenly soared across my vision, I exclaimed, 'The fool! Its lovely white wings will be smeared with paint...
From Beer to Bali. The porch at Provincetown was the end of a long, winding trail. Born in Russia, Sterne came to the U.S. at eleven, earned his living as a Third Avenue bartender. The proprietor gave him his first painting commission: a picture of a cool, foamy stein of beer, labeled "5 Cents." In his off-hours, Sterne went to art school. He studied anatomy under Thomas Eakins, won a traveling scholarship which took him back to Europe...
...clock opener, the final contest of the Inter-House loop, the Dudley five faces Leverett. Toppled from their league-leading porch last week by losing to Dunster while Lowell won its eighth straight game, the Bunnies can send the race into playoff by checking third-place Dudley...