At 07:59 AM 4/29/2007 -0500, you wrote: >I like how the chiseled head emerges from the primordial flux at bottom left. By that time Lewis had (by his own later reckoning) given up his earlier ideas of vortextual painting for portraiture (paid the bills as well,) but to me there's a homage to the Vortex in the chiseled presentation. The painting behind Pound is indicative of the beautiful paintings that Lewis did at the end during his Toronto and post Toronto years which are his most outstanding. (But later and second painting of Eliot done with near blindness is cool too. me >Regards >Tim Romano