This is a pity: viewers reluctant to penetrate the Bronx will miss the best art - items like Philip Guston's preposterous pink-and-red butterfly perched on a mug in the same colors.

Her eyes were made up with blue paint and gold leaf and her eyebrows had been twisted, and stiffened with wax to form long tapering points, giving the effect of a butterfly perched on her face.

The lace securing her topknot looked like an enormous black butterfly perched on her head.

She rose a little as she lost sight of Lily, then spotted her crouched down, examining a butterfly perched on a blade of grass.

Euphemia stared at a vivid butterfly perched near her head.

Me, Allukah, queen of the Horlas, a fragile butterfly perched on the edge of a daffodil?

The common was peaceful and sunny; butterflies perched on thistle flowers and grasshoppers serenaded each other with their ceaseless cadences.

In one of the notebooks was a paper cutout of a butterfly, believed to be the same butterfly perched on the poet's hand in a photograph of him taken in the 1870's, Mr. Kiffer said.

I stood there looking at a fritillary butterfly perched on the golden-brown cushion of a purple coneflower, sipping nectar from the hundreds of tiny florets that make up each cone in the flower's center.

I saw a little way ahead a brown and crimson butterfly perched upon a cornflower.