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[QVCisFun]

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@Oznell wrote:

@QVCisFun ,  I'm pretty sure the activity in the last one, "Joy of Working",  is a family and their friends maple-sugaring in the woods.  That's what it looks like to me.  I've been trying, but it's hard to get info on it-- some of the gallery stuff is behind a sort of a paywall that blurs stuff out.  

The happy teamwork and joy that you reference in these 'naive' works is exactly what appeals to me too!  So much of de Castro's winter scenes are like that--  sledding, skating, making snow angels...   

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@Oznell  , I agree, it looks like they are maple-sugaring.  The more I study the painting, the more I love it.  I wasn't able to find much information about the painting either, but on another note I did read that Deborah Kerr and Julio Iglesias were among the artist's early patrons.

[QVCisFun]

@QVCisFun wrote:

@jubilant wrote:

I love winter scenes. These are all so great.

Just curious....does anyone leave their winter scenes up year around? 

@jubilant  ,  I love winter snow scenes.  I have a round holiday cookie tin lid (I put a magnet on the back of it) that I keep on the front of the refrigerator all year.  It is about five inches in diameter.  The scene is of an overcast snowy winter farm landscape.

@Oznell  and @jubilant  ,  this is a follow-up to my previous post.  A friend found a picture of the round cookie tin lid that looks just like mine:

[QVCisFun]

@Oznell :

Two stories involving Clarence Gagnon.

Saw a painting recently (thanks to @Oznell ), and wondered if it was done by Clarence Gagnon because it looked similar (in perspective and theme) to one of his illustrations, but then learned that the painting was done by Homer Winslow.  Really like both works of art:

Winslow Homer, artist:

Clarence Gagnon, artist:

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Then came across this Clarence Gagnon painting of a Quebec cottage that seemed very similar (in perspective especially, landscape, and features of the house such as columns, porch, and stairs) to a photograph in the OHIO COTTAGE TURNED GUEST HOUSE thread:

Clarence Gagnon, artist:

From the OHIO COTTAGE TURNED GUEST HOUSE thread:

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Thought the parallels were interesting and fun to come across.

[Lucky Charm]

Hello dear @Oznell 

I wished you published a magazine or something!  Weekly.  I love reading your threads.

The paintings are beautiful.  Not a fan of snow, though.  My experience with it is, it's pretty coming down.  But days after are cold and damp and then the slush...ugh!

If I won a ski vacation, I'd cry!

My Irish maternal great, great grandfather (farthest I've gone back) was born in New Brunswick, CA and they lived along the Bay of Fundy.  I love living by the water, but not those tides!  And the cold winter months, no way!

That said, I do have a silk print of a snow capped Mt. Fuji our bedroom.

[Oznell]

Hey, it's funny when an old thread of mine pops up again!

Those are amazing parallels that you picked up on, @QVCisFun !   Thanks for finding and posting those.  I'm a huge fan of Winslow Homer too, a brilliant American painter.

@Lucky Charm ,  I'm with you, am less and less a fan of snow in "real life" too.   Winter gloom and slippery ice especially, put me off.  Brrrr.   Back when I posted this thread, right after Christmas, winter scenes seemed fun and jolly, "in the abstract",  safely on canvas, ha.  And the paintings are masterly...