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'Girl and Laurel' Adds a Touch of Rural Romance to Downtown
Learn more about the artwork on display through September at The Berkley Farm Stand lot as part of the Detroit Institute of Arts' annual Inside|Out program.
A reproduction of "Girl and Laurel" by Homer Winslow is on display through September at The Berkley Farm Stand lot.
It is one of five artworks from the Detroit Institute of Arts on display this summer throughout Berkley as part of the fourth annual Inside|Out program.
"To our 21st-century eyes, this young woman in her cottage clothing gathering flowers may seem like she belongs to an earlier, simpler time," says the DIA of "Girl and Laurel," an oil on canvas painted in 1879. "But even when it was painted, this image was a nostalgic view. Winslow Homer spent time on a real farm observing the industrialized, heavy machinery already common by the late 1800s, but chose to turn his eye – and ours – toward this romantic image of rural life."
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Homer was a largely self-taught American painter, who was best known for his marine subjects, according to winslowhomer.org.
"I prefer every time a picture composed and painted outdoors," Homer said. "The thing is done without your knowing it.”
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