landscape tree man water

Evening

Robert Swain Gifford

1878

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Elderly bespectacled man with a wry visage in profile facing left He wears a brown full brimmed hat and coat blue workmans shirt and pants and a red neckerchief In his right hand he carries a garden hoe With his left arm he carries a green watering can his arm looped through the handle
This small painting is a sketch of a mountainous landscape with a body of water in the foreground and middleground In the lower right corner of the painting is a u shaped coastline with scattered rocks and a few small trees in the distance The body of water extends to the base of mountains that rise vertically from its shore These mountains recede into the distance
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This painting represents a woman wearing a pale teal robe laying on a bed reading a magazine Her left hand rests on the magazines pages and her right hand is bent to support her head Under her right arm is a pink blanket trimmed in satin and the bed is topped with a bedspread that matches her robe Behind the woman is a window trimmed in lace and floral curtains Through the window buildings can be seen