Nice Can Use Fabric Paint Canvas photos
A few nice can use fabric paint canvas images I found:
Paul Kauvar Smith: The Sky Pond, 1934
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The Sky Pond
Paul Kauvar Smith
1933-1934
born Cape Girardeau, Missouri 1893- died Denver, Colorado 1977
oil on canvas
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Transfer from the U.S. Department of Labor 1964.1.59
This stunning Colorado view is one that hikers in Rocky Mountain National Park can see to this day. Artist Paul Kauvar Smith portrayed the brown rocks of the central mountain, Taylor Peak, as red as if they were illuminated by a sunset. However, the sky seen above the mountain and reflected in Sky Pond is the brilliant blue of mid-day. The snows of Taylor Glacier glow blue-white between the rugged boulders, showing how cold it is in the high Rockies even when the slopes are clad in summer greenery. Smith’s sun-drenched colors and grand mountain scenery evoked a wild paradise all too distant for those caught in the gritty urban poverty of Depression-era America.
Smith probably encountered the Civilian Conservation Corps, a work relief program for young men, as he explored the Colorado Rockies in search of picturesque landscapes. By spring 1933 the CCC. was at work in Rocky Mountain National Park, building the trails and roads that visitors would travel to experience remote wilderness spots like Taylor Peak and Sky Pond for themselves.
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Ivan Albright: The Farmer’s Kitchen, 1934
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The Farmer’s Kitchen, 1934
Ivan Albright, Born: North Harvey, Illinois 1897 Died: Woodstock, Vermont 1983
oil on canvas 36 x 30 1/8 in. (91.5 x 76.5 cm.)
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Transfer from the U.S. Department of Labor 1964.1.74
Ivan Albright’s obsessively detailed painting style put on canvas the crushing impact of drudgery and advancing age. The swollen, red-knuckled hands of this farmwife preparing to peel radishes, pushed forward until they are impossible to ignore, evoke an aching sympathy. The cast-iron stove has become a tool of torture this woman cannot avoid in her daily grind. Wrinkles multiply over her drooping flesh, speaking too eloquently of years full of ceaseless labor. The family cat offers this farm wife no companionship, but shrinks away from her. Outside in the fields must be a farmer husband equally worn by long labor. The burden of empathy for this hard life, made yet harder by the Depression, is almost unbearable.
Who is this poor farmwife, limp with weariness and lined with toil? One of Albright’s neighbors in Warrenville, Illinois, posed for the painting. But no individual can explain the emotional freight of Albright’s depiction. He aged and distorted every person he painted, young or old. Albright painted flesh that does not heal as living flesh does, but crumples and shows the scars of every event with equally cruel clarity.
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