From our art columnist Jarvis MacKinnon III:
Our current affairs editor, Lem Stuart, recently posted photos and information about some of the candy corn festivals we have attended this fall, and as I looked through all of the photographs from our trips, two in particular reminded me of works by Charles Sheeler and Georgia O'Keeffe.
First, on a trip to the Candy Corn Festival in Stanardsville, Va, many of us took a side trip to the Shenandoah National Park. While there, we trekked to an overlook at Powell Gap, and we saw this view of Skyline Drive:
Our current affairs editor, Lem Stuart, recently posted photos and information about some of the candy corn festivals we have attended this fall, and as I looked through all of the photographs from our trips, two in particular reminded me of works by Charles Sheeler and Georgia O'Keeffe.
First, on a trip to the Candy Corn Festival in Stanardsville, Va, many of us took a side trip to the Shenandoah National Park. While there, we trekked to an overlook at Powell Gap, and we saw this view of Skyline Drive:
The view reminded me of the view Georgia O'Keeffe had outside her kitchen window at her home in Albiquiu, New Mexico -- a view she painted many times.
Below: Georgia O'Keeffe's view from her home -- and three of her paintings of that very stretch of road.
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For information on Georgia O'Keeffe's many connections to the poetry of Emmett Lee Dickinson, click HERE.
The second photograph that struck me was this one of a vacant building in Elkton, Virginia:
The angles and colors of the building and the sky reminded me of this painting by artist Charles Sheeler:
The angles and colors of the building and the sky reminded me of this painting by artist Charles Sheeler:
Sheeler attended the Emmett Lee Dickinson School for Boys in Philadelphia as a youth, and he became a great fan of Dickinson's poetry. One of his most well-known paintings is of the Dickinson Candy Corn Factory in Washerst, PA :
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