During the summer of 2008, Maud Taber-Thomas had a research fellowship from Bowdoin College to study the philosophy and painting techniques of the Pre-Raphaelites. The project inspired her to do a series of paintings that explore Pre-Raphaelite ideas.
Damsel with a Dulcimer
8″ x 10″
Oil on Panel
2009
A damsel with a dulcimer In a vision once I saw: It was an Abyssinian maid, And on her dulcimer she played, Singing of Mount Abora.-Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Kubla Khan
Dorian Gray II: The Senses and the Soul
30″ x 40″
Oil on Canvas
2008
“Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.”-The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde
Lilies of the Field: Jonathan
10″ x 14″
Oil on Panel
2008
Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they toil not, neither do they spin: and yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.-Matthew 6:28-29
