Friday, May 1, 2009

Snow Hill

Happy May Day

In years past I gave May baskets to my grandma.
(The only way we celebrated May Day)
We never did set up a Maypole; did we miss anything?

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Andrew Wyeth's 'maypole' painting, "Snow Hill".
Must've been chilly in those hills if it was May 1st.

Its a huge painting, by the way - 6 feet wide by 4 feet tall. I saw it at the Brandywine River Museum. And it really is an in-joke, because all the celebrants are people from his other paintings.

3 comments:

  1. Well personally I don't see the attraction of prancing and capering round a pole :/

    But I must say, I love that painting! I hadn't seen that before and I liked that you gave little facts about it. Looking at art is wonderful and very enjoyable, but it's knowing the painting's history that makes it fascinating.

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  2. Nice one, Nanctwop!
    Realism paintings are the best, saw your comments over on A World So Small and had to check out the blog.

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  3. great information, love the hidden stuff!

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