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COURTESY OF LEE HANSLEY GALLERY
North Carolina Literature in a Global Context
Aware of her arms with the raised blood’s waning I married her again in a lifetime’s reckoning, we sped past dream-quick by faces of children, leaving a vision of our village windows and whiteness of geese across grass and the returning haywain. My spirit flamed out as of old in hardy enduring and we voyaged together, close-caught in a love-caul holding each in each we two a swallow’s flicker on icy fathoms, though I recalled her in sun on upland meadow along the barren broken brine-brittle seaboard.
Time Reassembled (oil on canvas, 34x34) by McDonald Bane, 1960
MCDONALD BANE was born and raised in the mountains of Virginia. She received her undergraduate degree in general science from Virginia Polytechnic and State University and her MFA in painting at Woman’s College, now UNC Greensboro. She has been a member of the faculty at Meredith College, the North Carolina School of the Arts, California State University at Fullerton, and Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. She was curator for the Southeastern Center of Contemporary Art in Winston-Salem from 1977 to 1980. Her work has been exhibited throughout the US and is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Weatherspoon Art Museum at UNC Greensboro the Mint Museum in Charlotte, and the US Department of State. See more of her work at Lee Hansley Gallery.