David gilmour blythe biography of william
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David Gilmour Blythe
"… I have grown
Almost gray and half-demented
In trying to find some place where I could
Get acquainted
Some place where man and man might dwell
Together in unity, and not tell
Lies on one another.
David gilmour blythe biography of william
…
I've never found
Such place. And though I 've hunted 'round
Perhaps with goggles on, I'll jist
Bet my life it don 't exist
On top of ground."
—David Gilmour Blythe (in a letter to Hugh Gorley, 1857)
In 1856 David Gilmour Blythe was at the pivotal point of his artistic career.
He had just moved to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, from East Liverpool, Ohio, his hometown, to which he had returned but two years earlier after several years of wandering in the Midwest insearch of a place where he might peacefully settle.
His need for a haven was acute, for in the years between 1850 and 1852 he had been buffeted by the deaths of his wife and father, and the dismal failure of an ambitious moving panorama on which he had staked both his financial security and h