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E. L. George (19th century), Child in a Rocking Chair, c 1870, American. Oil on canvas. 38.4 x 33.0 cm. Courtesy of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (http://www.mfa.org/home.htm), Boston, Mass; gift of Maxim Karolik for the M. and M. Karolik Collection of American Paintings, 1815-1865. Photograph © 2005 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Beauty in the eye of the painter is not always so in the hand of the painter. To express beauty demands not only desire, but skill. One might judge this to be so in the 19th-century folk painting Child in a Rocking Chair (cover) by the American artist E. L. George. Yet, though the image may seem awkward, even grotesque to a casual viewer, this painting of a child in a rocking chair holding an apple in her hands captures for some unknown reason the viewer’s full and almost immediate attention: what . . . [Full Text of this Article]

M. Therese Southgate, MD