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Summer (Portrait)
Artist: James Tissot (French, 1836–1902)
Date: 1876
Medium: Oil on canvas
Collection: Tate Britain, London, United Kingdom
Description
James Tissot is deliberately ambiguous here, inviting us to interpret it. His model, Miss Lloyd, stands at the entrance of a billiards’ room, a space traditionally associated with men. She is either leaving or inviting someone in. Her large engagement ring adds mystery as to who she is looking at. Tissot also made a print on the same subject called ‘Il faut qu’une porte soit ouverte ou fermée (A Door Must Be Open or Closed) or Portrait of Miss L.
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winfred rembert -- "inside homer clyde's II" (2007)
"you have to play a role that isn’t really you. it’s like slavery. you have to meet all those demands and keep a sense of yourself as well" ... winfred rembert
"i used to hang out at jack's pool hall you go down there and don't do nothin' at all if you wanted to play some cards there was a game in the back if you wanted a shot of somethin' you went and talked to jack if you had a little money and you was a grade A fool there was a guy down there who used to shoot a little pool" ... jonny lang
[on escaping a white lynch mob]: "it stayed with him his whole life. it never left. he said it was like a movie replaying over and over in his head. and when he'd go to sleep, it would all come back vividly to him in his dreams. and it did follow him to his grave. ... well, i don't know whether [the art] actually helped him that much, but it gave him an outlet to tell the world about what had happened" ... patsy rembert (winfred's wife)
"the billiard table is better than the doctor" ... mark twain
"rack 'em up" ... al janik
The Billiard Table By Susan Zehnder, Education Director
It’s hard to miss the billiard table on display in the Museum in the Bank Gallery’s Mark Twain section. It came from the third floor playroom of the Langdon home on Church and Main streets. When the home was demolished in the 1930s, the table was moved to the J. Langdon & Co. office on Baldwin Street. It was later sold to lawyer and businessman John Sullivan who had offices on East Church Street and, later, Baldwin Street. When Sullivan died in 1965, Sullivan’s cousin and law partner, William Delaney, inherited the property along with its contents and donated the table to the Historical Society. (READ MORE)
