In the Clearing

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Companion print to A Girl of the Limberlost by Gene Stratton-Porter. Handmade lithograph featuring young woman playing violin. Limited and numbered edition signed by artist. The miniature image in this fine art edition is 5 15/16 in. x 2 5/16 in. printed in black ink on hand-torn piece of German etching paper measuring 8 7/16 in. x 4 5/16 in. Categories: A Girl of the Limberlost, Al Young, Figure, Gene Stratton-Porter, Lithograph
Product No.: 3.00.0193.010

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Item can ship by Friday, 16 January, 2009 through USPS Priority Mail with Delivery Confirmation

In the Clearing

by Al Young

Black ink on German etching paper

Print documentation is provided online for collectors.

Companion Print

Girl of the Limberlost

Girl of the Limberlost is the world just across the threshold of this finely crafted lithograph. At the edge of a clearing in the Limberlost, you can almost hear Elnora’s music making the leaves dance in the dappled shadows at the forest edge.

Behind the Scene

At the edge of a clearing in a lowering wood the sunlight plays its song. And out of the circling darkness round, the rustling leaves reach out to listen and to warm themselves in dappled rays of hope.

Painted in a mideval script over the archway leading into the studio is a statement from a 19th Century text:

both to please the eye and to gladden the heart

That simple statement sums up my hope for the artwork perhaps as well as words can do. There are thoughts and feelings behind each image, well expressed in much of the music to which I often listen as I work. Each image is the visual expression of such feelings. Yet this simply stated hope, arching over the studio entrance, is the over arching hope for all of them.

Related Behind-the-scenes Commentaries

In the Clearing was featured in the March-April 2001 issue of The Storybook Home. In an article entitled "In the Clearing: A Picture of Song," Al Young talks about some of the significant aspects of the image. For example:

No sound is associated with drawing a lithograph. It is as though the drawings are created just beyond a dream threshold in which everything is a whisper, and time itself stands still. I like to think that the hushed and timeless aspects of that world permeate the images created there.

The complete article is available in the March-April 2001 issue of The Storybook Home.

Framing the Lithograph

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