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Head Drawings 1994-1997
Art by Lynn B. (Hutchins) Haney

These drawings and portraits of the human head were done with charcoal on paper (except for one).
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"We have rebelled against God. We have lost the true spirit of Christianity, though we retain the outward profession and form of it.... By many, the Gospel is currupted into a superficial system of moral philosophy, little better than anceint Platonism...."
--Samuel Langdon, president of Harvard, 1775.

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"I speak as a man of the world to men of the world; and I say to you, Search the Scriptures! The Bible is the book of all others, to be read at all ages, and in all conditions of human life; not to be read once or twice or thrice through, and then laid aside, but to be read in small portions of one or two chapters every day, and never to be intermitted, unless by some overruling necessity."
--John Quincy Adams, 6th U.S. President (1767-1848)

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O lightsome day, the lampe of highest Ioue,
First made by him, mens wandring wayes to guyde,
When darknesse he in deepest dongeon droue,
Henceforth thy hated face for euer hyde,
And shut vp heauens windowes shyning wyde:
For earthly sight can nought but sorrow breed,
And late repentance, which shall long abyde.
Mine eyes no more on vanitie shall feed,
But seeled vp with death, shall haue their deadly meed.
--Edmund Spenser (1552-1599), The Faerie Qveene, Book I, Cant. VII, stanza 23.

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"The career of motherhood and homemaking is beyond value and needs no justification. Its importance is incalculable."
--Katherine Short

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        ...I thought, if I could draw my paines,
Through Rimes vexation, I should them allay.
Griefe brought to numbers cannot be so fierce,
For, he tames it, that fetters it in verse.
--John Donne (1572-1631), from "The Triple Foole"

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        To have my aim, and yet to be
Farther from it then when I bent my bow;
To make my hopes my torture, and the fee
        Of all my woes another wo,
Is in the midst of delicates to need,
And ev'n in Paradise to be a weed.

        Ah, my deare Father, ease my smart!
These contrarieties crush me; these crosse actions
Doe winde a rope about, and cut my heart:
        And yet since these Thy contradictions
Are properly a crosse felt by Thy Sonne
With but foure words, my words, 'Thy will be done!'

--George Herbert (1593-1633), "The Crosse"


Art © Lynn B. Hutchins. All rights reserved.
These works of art, including the electronic files, may NOT be copied, saved to disk, printed out,
or used in any manner without the artist's express written permission.

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