#Fidelia Bridges

[pear-spective]

FIDELIA BRIDGES

Milkweeds (1876)

[psikonauti]

Fidelia Bridges (American,1835-1924)

Swallows by the Sea, 1906

Watercolor and gouache

[weary-hearted-art]

Fidelia Bridges, Untitled, 1876. Watercolor on paper

[abwwia]

Fidelia Bridges, Untitled, ca. 1876, watercolor on paper, sheet: 14 x 10 in. (35.5x 25.4 cm.), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Given in memory of Charles Downing Lay and Laura Gill Lay by their children, 1967.7.5

[typhlonectes]

Fidelia Bridges (American 1834 – 1923) - Thistle, 1886

[maniktranquility]

November by Fidelia Bridges

[sandmandaddy69]

Fidelia Bridges

[doxelstory]

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Fidelia Bridges (American,1835-1924) :: Swallows by the Sea, 1906

Watercolor and gouache

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“The human heart is like a night bird. Silently waiting for something, and when the time comes, it flies straight toward it.”

— Haruki Murakami

[alive on all channels]

[coltonwbrown]

Fidelia Bridges

[justsomepaintingsforyou]

Calla Lily, Fidelia Bridges I 1875

[quo-usque-tandem]

Bird's Nest and Ferns by Fidelia Bridges

[psikonauti]

Fidelia Bridges (American,1835-1924)

Sparrows in Winter, 1879

watercolor and gouache

[weary-hearted-art]

Fidelia Bridges, Bird's Nest and Ferns, 1863

[abwwia]

Fidelia Bridges, Calla Lilly, c. 1875, Brooklyn Museum of Art

[outofangband]

I think a lot about the spaces of Beleriand that are largely uninhabited save for those who journey to or through them for safety or in flight; Dimbar for example that Húrin traveled through twice in his life, the passes through the Ered Gorgoroth that Beren came through, the caves of Androth Tuor and the elves of Mithrim sheltered in, etc

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Painting by Fidelia Bridges in 1876