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George Inness (1825-1894), Under the Greenwood, 1881, American. Oil on canvas. 91.7x 74 cm. Courtesy of the North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh (http://www.ncartmuseum.org); purchased with funds from the State of North Carolina.

The light flits across the canvas like a firefly at twilight. It picks out a leaf here, a branch there, at the center a hoary tree trunk, beside it a slender, arching trunk. Beneath the trees are sheep in sun and shadow (even the proverbial black sheep), behind the fence a horse (or mule), in the right foreground wild mushrooms, in the right background the tiny figure of a sower. Almost completely hidden in shadow, a small boy sits whittling beside a winding path. He is Pan, perhaps, boy-god of the forest, guardian of sheep, carving himself a flute. This is the idyllic scene, the American Eden, as only George Inness (1825-1894) could . . . [Full Text of this Article]