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American
(1902–1999)
Elemental Drifts
1943
Oil on wood panel
23.5 x 31.5 x 1.675 in.
Gift of the Marie Eccles Caine Foundation
1987.5
"Elemental Drifts," a poem by Walt Whitman, informs John Langley Howard’s painting of a Mexican family on the beach in Monterey, California. Whitman wrote the poem during the Civil War, whose death and destruction he had experienced intimately. He mourns those that have been “wreck’d,” and identifies with the “drift and debris” that has washed up on the shore.
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