在果园In the Orchard 詹姆斯·古特利（Sir James Guthrie）油画作品欣赏

   Guthrie worked on this large-scale painting between 1885 and 1886. For part of that time he was staying at Cockburnspath, a small village near the Berwickshire coast, but he also worked on it in Glasgow and Kirkcudbright. The painting’s size was unusual for the time given the everyday subject matter. Large canvases were normally reserved for epic historical or religious themes. It shows a young boy and girl collecting windfall apples in an orchard as sunlight shimmers through the trees. Guthrie struggled with the challenges posed by working on such a scale; it forced him to use broad brushwork to achieve the naturalistic representation that he was seeking. The sketchbook that Guthrie used while staying at Cockburnspath is in the Scottish National Gallery’s Print Room, and it reveals his experiments with the composition of this picture.

在果园In the Orchard 詹姆斯·古特利（Sir James Guthrie）油画作品欣赏

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