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We look across a profusion of vivid red, blush-pink, and white flowers lining a stony shoreline in this almost square landscape painting. The scene is loosely painted so some details are indistinct, especially the blossoms of the flowers, which are dabs of pink and red. The flowers have long, sage-green stems shaded with flicks of navy blue. The field of flowers covers the bottom third of the composition, and a vibrant green and blue bush peeks in from the right edge of the painting. Beyond the field of flowers is a powder-blue body of water with low, rocky formations, like giant, shallow…

Poppies, Isles of Shoals

Childe Hassam (American, 1859 - 1935)

1891 · oil on canvas

National Gallery of Art · Gift of Margaret and Raymond Horowitz

Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0)

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