"Goodness gracious, can't we find a cooler spot to loll? This North Carolina Summer has arrived too soon".
But, doesn't this look much more romantic than camping indoors with the air conditioning running at full blast?
When I step inside the North Carolina Museum of Art I always turn left to view this beautiful painting first. It's very large (57 X 76 inches) and always seems so welcoming. I love everything about it ~ the parasols, dresses, hat, garden furniture, and the table set for afternoon tea most likely. The play of light and shadow and the brilliant colors are truly beautiful.
The Garden Parasol ~ 1910Frederick Carl Frieseke - (American 1874-1939)
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh
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I absolutely LOVE this painting, Mary!!! The colors are stunning! I would love to see it in person...I'm booking a flight...and maybe I could stop in and visit the Biltmore, too. ;)
ReplyDeleteMary, your post is just the thing I love to see. The artist died the year I was born. I wonder what else he has painted. I'll have to Google him. Isn't it amazing what we can learn these days and never leave the house?
ReplyDeleteDeborah said you are friends, if and when I go to Raleigh, I can see by Deborah's comment, there are several of us to have lunch together. Lets do it.
Take care, Jeanne
I was in Raleigh this weekend and started to go to the Museum of Art, but was confused by all of the construction surrounding it! Wasn't it a scorcher?! The picture is beautiful! I dropped over to see your porch and it is lovely! Hope you are staying cool! ~Rhonda :)
ReplyDeleteMary! Wonderful! I love going to that Museum too. I actually vonlunteered there once. This painting is absolutely gorgeous! Hugs and kisses, Vanessa
ReplyDeleteTo me Frieseke was truly the essence of American Impressionism. I also love Hollyhocks.
ReplyDeleteThat does help to romanticize this awful heat. Hopefully it will ease off some soon.
Hi Mary.... who knows, I might be vising that North Carolina Museum of Art pretty soon, as we are planing an upcoming trip to NC to visit our granddaughter.... :) Hope you keep cool.
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cielo
This painting so reminds me of the American Impressionists Museum in Giverny. I remember being so in awe of these artists not having known that a group of Americans had come over to France to paint alongside the Impressionist masters like Monet. It was also there that I first saw the work of Mary Cassatt.
ReplyDeleteAre you finding any relief from the hot weather? I hope there will be a change in the temperatures for you. We are supposed to cool down a little and get rain from Wednesday. I really hope for the rain. Keep cool!
Hugs ~
Heidi
You can almost feel the breeze and hear the birdsong. I wonder what she's reading? Poetry, no doubt.
ReplyDeleteWe are rather wilted here too, and praying for rain!
I love this painting!!
ReplyDeleteIt would have to cooler than it is here!...and yes, so romantic!
Did you see all the mother/child art I've been posting? I love art!
Hugs,
Deborah
That is a wonderful painting. It is gorgeous here on your blog, I can just imagine how beautiful it is in person...
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Penny
I love that sun shining through the parosol. Great painting.
ReplyDeleteMary, amazing -- I was just blogging last night about hopefully making a trip soon to the NC Museum of Art. :)
ReplyDeleteI worked all day yesterday and then last night for family time we watched a new tape I had purchased about Mary Cassatt. It was really nice. I like it when the children enjoy whay they're doing AND are learning something at the same time! I want to take them to the museum again soon.
Love that Garden Parasol. And I am up for a get-together when it cools off. I really want to see SuzAnna's.
Lynn
That painting is huge. I bet you do need the parasol. Our temps dropped some due to a storm.
ReplyDeleteMandie is back in N. Car. and did a blog entry today.
Nancy
It's amazingly beautiful, Mary!
ReplyDeletePat
Come over to Norway and you will get cooler weather for sure :-)
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ReplyDeleteTo be 100 here in central VA... crazy. But you prob get warmer weather than we do .. this is insane! Thanks for the parasol picture though to send us all cooler thoughts.
Mim
She does look as though she needs a nice cool glass of lemonade!
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ReplyDeleteWhat a beautiful painting. I love th ecolor of the parasol! I don't think they could be too cool with those long dresses and all the restricting undergarments they wore in those days.
This heat is terrible!!
Rhondi
The color is what strikes me first - that gorgeous parasol lit by the sun. It is fabulous, just as you said in your comment to my post about his "Lillies" painting...I wonder if that is the same garden? And the same ladies - the one sitting down looks like the same woman in the white dress in "The Lillies." Don't you wish we could go live in these paintings for a time? I sure do.
ReplyDeleteWonderful dappled light painting. Of course, an an English person you'd have to love it as do I!
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