Valuable pictures by foreign and American masters . No. 153NOON HOUR BY HANS THOMA /oco Hans Thoma German: 1839—15S—XOOX HOUR Height, 26*4 inches; length, 32% inches Under a sky of deep, intense blue in which a singlepatch of light gray cloud floats, in the upper righthand corner, a bold landscape stands out in the bril-liant light of the noonday sun. The shadows of somechickens pecking in a roadway in the foreground arealmost directly beneath the birds. The road leads toa long, low, brown farmhouse, and winds about treesof dense foliage and hillocks of green grass; at a bend,in the middle dis
Valuable pictures by foreign and American masters . No. 153NOON HOUR BY HANS THOMA /oco Hans Thoma German: 1839—15S—XOOX HOUR Height, 26*4 inches; length, 32% inches Under a sky of deep, intense blue in which a singlepatch of light gray cloud floats, in the upper righthand corner, a bold landscape stands out in the bril-liant light of the noonday sun. The shadows of somechickens pecking in a roadway in the foreground arealmost directly beneath the birds. The road leads toa long, low, brown farmhouse, and winds about treesof dense foliage and hillocks of green grass; at a bend,in the middle distance, is the figure of a woman in blue,with a red cap. Mounting high above the treetops isa broad, round-topped hill, whose fields have beenreaped, and show a warm sunny yellow beneath theskys strong blue. Signed at the lower right, HT (in monogram), from E. P. Schneider, Frankfort,
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Keywords: ., bookauthoramerican, bookcentury1900, bookdecade1910, bookyear1916
