This painting feels like fall to me and I like it. The artist, Edwin Evans is from Lehi, Utah, and left for France at age thirty to study art. Evans was part of a small group of Utah painters whose Paris art studies were being financed by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. In exchange for the art training, these artists painted murals in the Salt Lake City temple upon return to Utah. This outdoor scene painted in France won an honorable mention at the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago.
Like many American artists at French academies, Evans sought relief rom the studio routine by painting in the countryside during the summer months. The sheaves and haystacks lead our eye back to the field worker and farmhouse on the horizon line. Grain Fields exhibits Impressionist color and light but retains an emphasis on an orderly composition.
(I saw this painting on display at the Museum of Art on the campus of Brigham Young University)
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