L'Etoile (Degas, 1876)

Wilbur, Richard

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L'Etoile (Degas, 1876)

Richard Wilbur (Contributor)

Degas at Harvard

A rushing music, seizing on her dance ...

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Richard Wilbur (Contributor)

PublisherHarvard Art Museums

Related print edition pages: pp.10-11

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00035.004

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L'Etoile (Degas, 1876)

RICHARD WILBUR

A rushing music, seizing on her dance,

Now lifts it from her, blind into the light;

And blind the dancer, tiptoe on the boards

Reaches a moment toward her dance’s flight.

Even as she aspires in loudening shine

The music pales and sweetens, sinks away;

And past her arabesque in shadow show

The fixt feet of the maître de ballet.

So she will turn and walk through metal halls

To where some ancient woman will unmesh

Her small strict shape, and yawns will turn her face

Into a little wilderness of flesh.

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BOOKDegas at Harvard

Marjorie Benedict Cohn

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00035

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This handsome book presents more than seventy paintings, drawings, prints, photographs, and sculptures by Edgar Degas (1834–1917) in Harvard University’s collections—one of the most important holdings of the artist’s work in the United States. In 1911, the Fogg Art Museum was the first museum to mount a one-man exhibition on Degas and was the only museum to do so during the artist’s lifetime. This book examines the history of Degas’s reception in the U.S., and in particular the pivotal role that Harvard played.

Marjorie Benedict Cohn offers a historical account of the formation of the prized collection of Degas’s works at the Fogg. Jean Sutherland Boggs provides an engaging personal recollection of her initial encounter in 1944 with Degas and his champion at the Fogg, associate director Paul J. Sachs, who inspired not only Boggs’s later work on Degas but also that of many other art historians, museum directors, and curators.

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Marjorie Benedict Cohn

PublisherHarvard Art Museums

Print publication date August 2005 (in print)

Print ISBN 9780300111446

EISBN 9780300243901

Illustrations 88

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