Clarice Beckett- Beaumaris Seascape c.1925.Oil on cardboard, 50x49cm
Among Clarice Becketts' belongings when she died, was a cherished and well worn copy of Walt Whitmans' Leaves Of Grass. The following lines were underlined--
All truths wait in all things,
They neither hasten their own delivery nor resist it,
They do not need the obstetric forceps of the surgeon,
The insignificant is as big to me as any.
What is less or more than a touch?
A perfect way to sum up her own life and work.
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