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On Winslow Homer's Weaning the Calf

On Winslow Homer's Weaning the Calf EXCERPT On Winslow Homer's Weaning the Calf by James Applewhite Winslow Homer American, 1836--1910 Weaning the Calf, 1875 Oil on canvas, 2 3 Vs ? 38 in. North Carolina Museum of Art Purchased with funds from the State of North Carolina 52.9.16 What shadows my happiness? The boy and calf so linked by a rope seem to forget all else. Grass recedes to the horizon and chickens roam free. Hay stacked richly as memory bulges mountainously on the sky. My wish is matched by this scene, where green reflected in aqua and clouds lets the perspective between take sight into a vapor refusing to be mist, a balmy air which will not weep but reveal: two town boys in hats and suspenders, bystanders, who also look past the other boy concealed in a ragged shade. His brother the calf resists being hauled from its source. Here the grass with its highlights, sunflakes like the whites of chickens and cow and of splashes on a boy and die calf's legs, seems mother of everything-- this vista between the framing trees, where farms and towns hover as invisibly as sorrow is in this air, as if seasons were only apparent. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Southern Cultures University of North Carolina Press

On Winslow Homer's Weaning the Calf

Applewhite, James.
Southern Cultures , Volume 3 (2) – Jan 4, 1997
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EXCERPT On Winslow Homer's Weaning the Calf by James Applewhite Winslow Homer American, 1836--1910 Weaning the Calf, 1875 Oil on canvas, 2 3 Vs ? 38 in. North Carolina Museum of Art Purchased with funds from the State of North Carolina 52.9.16 What shadows my happiness? The boy and calf so linked by a rope seem to forget all else. Grass recedes to the horizon and chickens roam free. Hay stacked richly as memory bulges mountainously on the sky. My wish is matched by this scene, where green reflected in aqua and clouds lets the perspective between take sight into a vapor refusing to be mist, a balmy air which will not weep but reveal: two town boys in hats and suspenders, bystanders, who also look past the other boy concealed in a ragged shade. His brother the calf resists being hauled from its source. Here the grass with its highlights, sunflakes like the whites of chickens and cow and of splashes on a boy and die calf's legs, seems mother of everything-- this vista between the framing trees, where farms and towns hover as invisibly as sorrow is in this air, as if seasons were only apparent.

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Southern Cultures – University of North Carolina Press

Published: Jan 4, 1997

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