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From: Eve
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Remote Name: 24.116.87.108
Date: 10-Sep-2002
Time: 11:37 AM
One of my favorite artist... Walter Osborne
Osborne's much-loved Breton rural scene shows two girls in traditional costume gathering apples in the orchard with the rooftops of Quimperle behind. The scene is reminiscent of other orchard and riverside works by O'Meara, Lavery and others in the mid-1880's, with characteristic plein air tones. What may distinguish Osborne from his contemporaries is his evident affection for the children, (the girl with upturned face, dumpy figure and rough peasant clothes), and the richly-worked surface, the 'painterly' enjoyment of colors: rich greens, grays and slate blues, with touches of pink and white.
http://images.andale.com/f2/115/106/1167789/1031675601075_Apple_Gathering.jpg
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