Summer

A seated man in a green vest and brown trousers paints at an easel, perched on a chair shaped like an enormous open pink hand. Behind him spreads a bright landscape with a pond, hills and trees, where a boy rides a pig and a dog trots alongside; to the right a woman holds a baby while a boy clings to her leg, and a white goat stands near a straw sunburst ornament.

Warm greens, pinks and reds fill the composition under a clear, sunny light, painted with fine, detailed watercolor strokes and crisp contours. The cracked earthen foreground and fantastical furniture give an otherwise ordinary painting scene a whimsical, storybook lightness.