Then, ending up by Isabella's desk as she did her homework, she'd stretch out in a patch of afternoon sun like some feathery pin-up girl, with one leg extended.
Her imagery is restricted to a very few motifs: a stretch of choppy, brooding gray sea, a patch of starry night sky, a layer of rough desert floor and, lately, a spider's web -- but her slow, perfectionist approach to printmaking has given her work a polished artistry that is a pleasure to behold.
A stretch of choppy, brooding gray sea, a patch of starry night sky and a layer of rough desert floor are images that keep recurring in the work of the Latvian-born artist Vija Celmins, a painter, sculptor, photographer, draftsman and printmaker.
Seated beneath a patch of trees on hot afternoon in Quantico, Virginia, a squared away Marine captain posed a simple question to a group of officer candidates.
He paused for a moment, as he reached a patch of shade on a warm afternoon, and told how he would lower the nation's unemployment rate.
With American opera companies large and small struggling financially and a few going under, there was a patch of encouraging news on Thursday night at St. Peter's Church in Chelsea, the home of the Chelsea Opera.
After the September 26 performance in Stockholm, the band's bus rolled over on a patch of icy road the following morning.
This time, a two-foot-high concrete statue of Jesus, its arms detached, was discovered yesterday morning on a patch of grass in front of an Episcopal church in Park Slope.
One of the few unfinished civic projects on a recent afternoon was a patch of the piazza near the Temple of Venus, where the cement had yet to dry.
A grim reminder of that arrived on Thursday evening, when a patch of sprayed-on concrete plummeted from the ceiling of a future commuter rail tunnel beneath Park Avenue and struck and killed Michael P. O'Brien, 26, who had been working at the site for three weeks.
