Gerrit Van Battem (1636-1684)
Winter Scene Outside A Town
1670
The Royal Collection, London
Watercolor And Bodycolor On Paper
11 1/8 Inches By 16 5/16 Inches
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Goethe himself—master of the New Year poem, the New Year letter, the New Year quotation and the New Year thought—surely would have appreciated this superb Dutch landscape by minor master Gerrit Van Battem, a painter renowned for his small-scale but exquisite landscapes.
An artwork relevant to the bout of winter weather that currently grips much of the country, “Winter Scene Outside A Town” is a most suitable painting to greet 2011.
I'm cold just looking at the painting... But wait, I was cold before I saw it, too. It's just cold in general! :oD I'm envious of the snow cover, though. Here we can only expect rain (which we do perhaps tomorrow... again), but no fluffy white altered-water-cannon-balls!
ReplyDeleteWishing you and yours a very Happy and Healthy 2011 all the way from cloudy California,
Smorgy :o)
FIRST DANGLING MODIFIER FOR 2011
ReplyDelete“The more someone complains about the homos the more we should look under their bed.”
- Sarah Palin
Richard Mitchell, the late author of “The Graves of Academe,” would have flipped over this compound snafu.
I call it "NICHTspeak."
I hope you had a great Christmas, Smorg, and that your 2011 is off to a most agreeable beginning.
ReplyDeleteWe found some great dangling modifiers in the sports pages over the holidays.
ReplyDeleteWe should have preserved them. A couple were hysterical.