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Jane Wooster Scott Signed Beacon on the Beach Print

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Jane Wooster Scott Signed Beacon on the Beach Print
Artist: Jane Wooster ScottSignature: By the artist, lower rightEdition: Limited, numberedTitle: Beacon on the Beach * Medium: Offset lithograph on paperSheet size: 11" x 13" * Condition: ExcellentBiography: * * For more than twenty-five years her paintings have summoned memories of a national heritage - the traditions, holidays, and customs of an innocent and energetic young America. Scott's paintings make no statement beyond reminding us that those were indeed the good old days. * In bright, uninhibited colors she revels in the fanciful simplicities of skating on moonlit ponds, country picnics, bobbing for apples at Halloween, hay rides and quilting bees. Her brushes summon a culture only dimly recalled by older Americans, rapidly vanishing memories. * * Scott's earliest recollections go back to that section of the country that, even in the 1940's retained glimmerings of the era in which she paints. She was reared in a small eastern Pennsylvania town near picturesque Bucks County to the north and the Amish and Pennsylvania Dutch communities to the west. Family excursions introduced her to red barns with hex signs, isolated white churches crowned with cross-topped steeples, covered wooden bridges and abandoned one-room school houses.Almost all her compositions are imaginary, drawn from her own thoughts and emotions. Daring, uninhibited use of the spectrum sets her apart from most contemporaries.The discerning eye often finds a dark haired young girl and/or gangly youth in Wooster Scott paintings. * *