Robert Russell MacNee, Landscape With Farm, Track & Horses

Robert Russell MacNee, Landscape With Farm, Track & HorsesThis evocative early 20th century oil painting by Scottish artist Robert Russell MacNee RGI (1880 1952) depicts a farm with a track, horses, and figures. MacNee was an accomplished painter of landscapes. Wrapped in a silvery glow, two carthorses rest by a water trough as fieldhands converse by a building beyond. Smoke rises from the farmhouse chimney. Its late in the year, when heavy boots sink into saturated ground and hearts are warmed by a

as Francis Bonaventure

Von Heider was born and trained in Munich so would’ve known it well

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Exquisitely rendered to capture the subtle effects of light

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a bonneted lady with a red shawl approaches them

was rarely in attendance

Each is rendered with precision

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The architecture and scenery are reminiscent of his other works from this period

each with distinct characteristics

numbered and framed