Mary Perry Stone - Gallery Group 3
Ed Stone, the poet, was Mary's husband who died in 1977. Each poem has a connection with the paintings and murals shown.


ALL-AMERICAN
by Ed Stone

The occasions increase
When we must prove
That we can love.

The opportunities fall
All around us
Like rice
At a wild wedding.

Or like strings
Of lighted firecrackers
Flaking the dizzy air
On the Fourth of July.

These days and nights
Circumstances are flowering
Like cancers of blue bones
Testing the invisible marrow
Of being human.

This test
Is the last.


For information please contact the artist through her daughter, Ramie Streng. Her email address is: rstreng@cybernetisp.net.



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Detail of a mural still in progress as of June 2002. It was done to honor Representative Barbara Lee's lone 'No' vote in the U.S. Congress on Sept. 14th 2001 for the War Powers Act which resulted in the bombing of Afghanistan. The rest of the Congress voted 'Yes'.


When Labor And The Fruits Of The Earth Is Ours
1998
oil mural
12'x5'


Slave Labor
1996
oil
8'x5'


The Redhead
1987
watercolor
9"x12"


Breaker Boys
1995
Mural
6'x4'20"


The Horror of War
1968
Oil
31"x26"