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Given his use of the crowquill pen's scratchy yet fluid lifework, his images reflected the tonal richness and improvisational flights of fancy of many of musicians he stylized such as Charlie Parker, Bud Powell and Billie Holiday.
Brad Balfour: Closing This Weekend -- Two Shows of Artists Who Use Music as Inspiration Brad Balfour 2011
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Given his use of the crowquill pen's scratchy yet fluid lifework, his images reflected the tonal richness and improvisational flights of fancy of many of musicians he stylized such as Charlie Parker, Bud Powell and Billie Holiday.
Brad Balfour: Closing This Weekend -- Two Shows of Artists Who Use Music as Inspiration Brad Balfour 2011
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Given his use of the crowquill pen's scratchy yet fluid lifework, his images reflected the tonal richness and improvisational flights of fancy of many of musicians he stylized such as Charlie Parker, Bud Powell and Billie Holiday.
Brad Balfour: Closing This Weekend -- Two Shows of Artists Who Use Music as Inspiration Brad Balfour 2011
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Given his use of the crowquill pen's scratchy yet fluid lifework, his images reflected the tonal richness and improvisational flights of fancy of many of musicians he stylized such as Charlie Parker, Bud Powell and Billie Holiday.
Brad Balfour: Closing This Weekend -- Two Shows of Artists Who Use Music as Inspiration Brad Balfour 2011
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I've been using Pigma Micron pens lately although I've used a Hunt crowquill type pen for years.
bad dreams good nightmares Scott Altmann 2009
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Mr. Owen informs me that a part of the oesophagus is so constructed that nothing much larger than a crowquill can be passed down.
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Mr. Owen informs me that a part of the oesophagus is so constructed that nothing much larger than a crowquill can be passed down.
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Many a much-belauded brush is but a fumbling and ineffective tool, compared with the ink-charged crowquill handled by CHARLES KEENE.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, March 21, 1891 Various
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Champion should perpetrate such spelling as the above; but those were days in which many a baron bold found it easier to inscribe his name on the scroll of fame, by dint of his trusty sword, than by the clerkly crowquill.
Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter James Conway Walter
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On every place they passed he would write verses and prose sketches, to give respectively the romance and the reality or ridicule; for he saw the comic side of it all, keenly; and he would illustrate the series with Turneresque vignettes, drawn with the finest crowquill pen, to imitate the delicate engravings.
The Life of John Ruskin Collingwood, W G 1911
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