Southern grass IV

Five slender figures in pale, loosely draped robes stand in a row behind a screen of tall grass and seeding thistle stalks; the second figure lifts a double pipe to her mouth as if playing, the others turned in profile or gazing outward. Behind them a strip of blue sky opens onto a hazy line of hills and water beneath a low, warm sun.

Warm golden-brown and dusty green tones dominate against the cooler blue of the sky, paint applied thickly with ridged, scratched texture that gives the grass a woven density. Figures are rendered in soft, flattened outline, producing a hazy, dreamlike pastoral hush.