1903, Pablo Picasso painted The "Old Guitarist" Guitar Player .

1913, Wallace Stevens rented an apartment in New York from sculptor Adolph A. Weinman. The profile of Wallace Stevens' wife Elsie Viola Rachel by the sculptor was engraved on the 1916-1945 Mercury Dime. The engraved winged cap worn on the head of Liberty symbolizes freedom of thought . The fasces on the reverse side represents strength through unity.

1937, Wallace Steven's wrote "The Blue Guitar's" interpretations on the theme of reality and imagination and the artists role in society , the year David Hockney was born.

1977, David Hockney was the age I am now . Inspired by the poem The Blue Guitar he made 20 etchings published subtitled as The Blue Guitar, etchings by David Hockney who was inspired by Wallace Stevens who was inspired by Pablo Picasso.

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the man with the rainbow guitar

he stepped into a palette
where all of the colors in such discord

dali's nerves unsettling strange
would have floated and flown to get away

I felt the heat of anger rise
and to give it a color i'd surmise

into battle there that day
bloodier than the blue and the grey

I turned and ran with angered breath
to jump into a rainbow's clef

he tuned it fine on his guitars
into sweet tears the rainbow ours

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