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10.00" x 6.50"
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2.00"
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0.88"
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15.50" x 12.00"
Unless Your Shelter Ward the Impending Storm Framed Print
by William Fields
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Unless Your Shelter Ward the Impending Storm framed print by William Fields. Bring your print to life with hundreds of different frame and mat combinations. Our framed prints are assembled, packaged, and shipped by our expert framing staff and delivered "ready to hang" with pre-attached hanging wire, mounting hooks, and nails.
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First on the sexes’ intermix’d connexion,... more
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Artist's Description
First on the sexes’ intermix’d connexion,
One sacred Right of Woman is protection.
The tender flower that lifts its head, elate,
Helpless, must fall before the blasts of fate,
Sunk on the earth, defac’d its lovely form,
Unless your shelter ward th’ impending storm.
From the poem Rights of Woman by Robert Burns
Subtitled “An Occasional Address. Spoken by Miss Fontenelle
on her benefit night, November 26, 1792”
It is astonishing to me that Robert Burns wrote of the rights of women in 1792! Twenty Six years earlier the American founding fathers were crafting words to protect the rights of men but they never saw fit to even give women a vote. Yet, here was Burns in so early a day as to be thought of as one of the first feminists.
This picture is in the Missouri Ozarks, near Branson. I was on a high ridge and could see this storm moving in. I found it to be an extremely dramatic pictorial story even though the picture is almost featureless...
About William Fields
William Fields, Artist Two Soaring Hearts, LLC www.william-fields.artistwebsites.com P.O. Box 293 Hermann, MO 65041 phone: 573.486.5252 or 314.578.5767 http://www.williamfieldsartphoto.com/develop/ Art is my passion. I try to put everything I have learned from every great teacher and through every mistake I have made into each and every piece with as much passion as I have for art and for life itself. Artists have been accused of being self aggrandizing, long winded, name droppers. I hate it when the critics get it right! In an attempt to diffuse those kinds of accusations, regardless of how accurate they may be, I am writing this statement today. Each picture I make begins with a germ of an idea. I visualize how I...
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Athala Carole Bruckner
This is very beautiful,love what you have done to this photograph,very dramatic..v/t/L/g+1
William Fields replied:
Thanks very much Athala. Appreciate your kindness and support
Sharon Duguay
v/f
William Fields replied:
t/y
Cheri Randolph
William, I especially appreciate the way that the landscape itself seems to mirror the roiling clouds of the sky. It's as if the entire earth is bracing for the storm. voted
William Fields replied:
Thanks Cheri for your always thoughtful comments. I'm honored to have your friendship
Afroditi Katsikis
Simple yet gorgeous! f/v
William Fields replied:
Thanks Afroditi!
Bob Hislop
v3, PIF4 CFC, the storm clouds with the break though lighting really make this image pop. The processing of the image is outstanding.
William Fields replied:
Thanks Bob, you are always so kind. I truly appreciate it.
Joan Carroll
very dramatic sky! v
William Fields replied:
Thanks Joan! You and Bob are the "old faithfuls"