Enoch Wood Perry Jr., American
Watkins & Lewis, America’s Best Hope for a Medal in Pairs Butter Churning, 1877
Oil on canvas
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Instead of "the teaching artist", I meant to say "this artist".
Info, or links that point to more info, about the teaching artist can be found here, here, here, here (can be read in full for free on Fridays), and here, perhaps in addition to what's in his Wikipedia page.
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/// The shy boy watched the girl at her churn
with deep longing, but also concern.
As he stared at her fist
he desired an assist;
for her hand to grasp him did he yearn.
/// He had offered her his helping hand,
(thinking less with his brain than a gland).
Then she says (of the stick),
“Not too long; not quite thick.”
When he hears that remark, he’s unmanned.
/// Though he searched for some words which would flatter,
he was terrible at idle chatter.
He’d invite her to sup,
but first, butter her up.
“Please don’t eat what you churn; you’ll get fatter.”
/// She enchants him— his speech turns to jabber.
Then he gathers the gumption to grab ‘er.
The radiant heat
when their two bodies meet
turns the milk in the churn into clabber.
/// As one part of his plan to romance her
he said, “This small scale-model’s the answer.
Put one hand on your hip
and now watch how I grip.
That’s the first step to be a pole dancer.”