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abc abc send draft to Athea  others for permission  before posting  then do a theclio on this easel spot for this painting and for intervale scenic vista too At first glance, the painting above seems like a pretty generic landscape that could be almost anywhere.  However, if you look closely, it has many stories to tell about a  very specific place  in New Hampshire's White Mountains just a few miles north of the Conway Public Library's Henney History Room. You can basically see the same view today from the same "easel spot" with few changes.  While many observers might be drawn first to the tallest peak (North Moat Mountain), crowned by a halo of pink and silver-edged clouds and silhouetted by the setting sun, I would like to draw your attention instead to the lower, rounded, dark knob just to the right of the painting's center point.  Hiding in the shadows here are a few small, simple, seemingly insignificant brushstrokes. Captured in subtle sha...

abc abc farming for art farming for art understanding, understanding art  send draft to Athea  others for permission  before posting  then do a theclio on this easel spot for this painting and for intervale scenic vista too fascinating "field" of study  field of view  x Farmer the symbiotic role farmer, tourist and artist, “consuming views” continuity and change x At first glance, the painting above seems like a pretty generic landscape that could be almost anywhere in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains from Maine to Georgia.  It is in fact, a view from North Conway, New Hampshire, now in the collection of the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, Georgia. For more information on it there see this link  here . (I am indebted to Athea King, Assistant to the Chief Curator and Director of Collections and Exhibitions at the High Museum of Art for her assistance with research on this painting).  It is a relatively small (15 x 26 inches), oil on c...