Left: La Bercuse (The Woman Who Rocks A Cradle, Vincent Va Gough (1889)., oil on canvas. Right: Woman With Sunflower Print Curtain, James Chapman-Taylor (1900-1930), autochrome photograph
Writes Professor Carol Dine:
At first, I didn’t see a comparison in the two images in that the greens, which immediately drew me in, seemed of such different tones. And the women, of contrasting eras and statures. Then I looked again at the faded sunflowers — aha — on the green curtain.
This poem from my book, Van Gogh in Poems, is written as if in Vincent Van Gogh’s voice. It’s meant to reflect his last day.
