[Vwoolf] Cornflower mystery

[coruscate818]

 Woolf may have seen some of Van Gogh's paintings of cornflowers in Roger
Fry's Post-Impressionist exhibitions. Anna Gruetzner Robins's  "'Manet and
the Post-Impressionists'" : a Checklist of Exhibits"    (
http://www.reading.ac.uk/web/files/art-REF/BurlDEC10pp782_93.pdf ) includes
"The man with the cornflower (no.67; 1890)" (
https://www.vincent-van-gogh-gallery.org/Young-Man-With-Cornflower.html)
and "Cornfield with Rooks, known as Crows over wheatfield (no.71; 1890)" (not
"Wheatfield with Cornflowers"), although she later states that "[s]everal
other pictures by Van Gogh were exhibited ex-catalogue."

In the 1930s,  Maybelline and Rose Laird were advertising blue eye shadow:

[image: Inline image 2] it: [image: Inline image 3]

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​Rose Laird: Makeup for Siren Eyes [image: Inline image 1]​

​http://www.cosmeticsandskin.com/booklets/laird-protection-1935.php​



On Tue, Jan 30, 2018 at 3:22 PM, Elisa Sparks <sparks at clemson.edu> wrote:

> Dear all-
>
> I am writing currently writing about cornflowers (aka Bachelor Buttons) in
> Woolf and I have found a passage which makes no sense to me.  On July 21,
> 1934, Virginia and Leonard went to Cambridge to visit an old friend,
> Barbara Hutchison, recently married to Victor Rothschild and very pregnant.
> After lunch Woolf describes Barbara as sitting “very upright, painted like
> a cornflower” (D4 228).  I have no idea what this can possibly mean.
> Anybody else have any ideas?  Could it be a misreading of her handwriting?
> Were women wearing vivid blue eye shadow yet?
>
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> Fascinated to hear what you all come up with--
>
> Elisa
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