{"id":47,"date":"2018-03-31T22:03:38","date_gmt":"2018-03-31T22:03:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/teenaudioguide\/?p=47"},"modified":"2018-05-10T01:41:06","modified_gmt":"2018-05-10T01:41:06","slug":"mourning-picture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/teenaudioguide\/2018\/03\/31\/mourning-picture\/","title":{"rendered":"Mourning Picture, Elmer (1890)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Audio by Annabella Boatwright<\/p>\nhttps:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/teenaudioguide\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/222\/2018\/03\/Annabella-Mourning-Edited-4_9_18-5.35-PM.m4a<\/a><\/audio>\n

<\/p>\n

Maker: Edwin Romanzo Elmer (1850 – 1923)<\/p>\n

Culture: American<\/p>\n

Title: Mourning Picture<\/em><\/p>\n

Date Made:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 1890<\/p>\n

Type:\u00a0 Painting<\/p>\n

Materials: Oil on canvas<\/p>\n

Place Made: Massachusetts<\/p>\n

Measurements: 28 x 36 in.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Transcript:<\/p>\n

I come to this painting every time I\u2019m in the museum, I think, because it\u2019s so uncanny the way it\u2019s been painted, and surreal. There\u2019s this little girl in the front and she\u2019s standing with this lamb, maybe a pet lamb in the front and a kitten, and her toys are kind of out on the grass. And then her parents are behind her sitting outside in these kind of fancy chairs and they\u2019re fully dressed in black, in mourning clothes. And the story behind this painting is the artist, Elmer, his daughter died and so he painted this as kind of a mourning picture. He painted her in the front and the thing about it that\u2019s so surreal and weird to look at is everything is so meticulously painted. There\u2019s every blade of grass and these little tiny flowers and the house in the background is really detailed, all the siding is painted in. And then there are these cracked clouds in the sky that have happened since he painted it, but they kind of add to this weird, surreal feeling that you get looking at the painting. And also no one is interacting with each other. There\u2019s this girl in the front who\u2019s kind of separated from her parents and they\u2019re just sitting in the background and no one is looking at each other. And then you think about what the artist was feeling when he made this painting, how he, you know, it took him probably a really long time to do every blade of grass and every leaf. And it makes you think, you know, if it was meditative or helpful to him when he was mourning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Audio by Annabella Boatwright<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1005,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-19th-century","category-third-floor","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/teenaudioguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/teenaudioguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/teenaudioguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/teenaudioguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1005"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/teenaudioguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/teenaudioguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":466,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/teenaudioguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions\/466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/teenaudioguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/teenaudioguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/teenaudioguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}