Small Town Warmth
During National Friendship Week focus on renewing old acquaintances and making new ones!
Reach out to family, work colleagues, neighbors, and youself, too! Today's affable painting was inspired by Alfred C. Howland's hometown, Walpole, New Hampshire. According to the artist's brother, the building was called the "Howland shed" and was one of the oldest structures in town. The elderly farmers shown in the painting had been neighbors all their lives. The painter immortalized their genial conversation in this pastoral scene.
Pictured: Alfred Cornelius Howland, 1838–1909, Friendly Neighbors, about 1909, oil, 16 1/2 x 22 5/8 in., Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of William T. Evans.
During National Friendship Week focus on renewing old acquaintances and making new ones!
Reach out to family, work colleagues, neighbors, and youself, too! Today's affable painting was inspired by Alfred C. Howland's hometown, Walpole, New Hampshire. According to the artist's brother, the building was called the "Howland shed" and was one of the oldest structures in town. The elderly farmers shown in the painting had been neighbors all their lives. The painter immortalized their genial conversation in this pastoral scene.