Still Life Painting - Apple Plate by Nancy Merkle

Apple Plate is a painting by Nancy Merkle which was uploaded on March 18th, 2013.

Apple Plate

A bright green apple on a blue and white plate and a Robert Frost poem about apple picking helped to inspire this oil painting that was created on a... more

by Nancy Merkle

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Price

$190

Dimensions

12.000 x 9.000 x 0.750 inches

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Title

Apple Plate

Artist

Nancy Merkle

Medium

Painting - Oil On Canvas

Description

A bright green apple on a blue and white plate and a Robert Frost poem about apple picking helped to inspire this oil painting that was created on a stretched canvas:

After Apple Picking

My long two-pointed ladder's sticking through a tree
Toward heaven still.
And there's a barrel that I didn't fill
Beside it, and there may be two or three
Apples I didn't pick upon some bough.
But I am done with apple-picking now.
Essence of winter sleep is on the night,
The scent of apples; I am drowsing off.
I cannot shake the shimmer from my sight
I got from looking through a pane of glass
I skimmed this morning from the water-trough,
And held against the world of hoary grass.
It melted, and I let it fall and break.
But I was well
Upon my way to sleep before it fell,
And I could tell
What form my dreaming was about to take.
Magnified apples appear and reappear,
Stem end and blossom end,
And every fleck of russet showing clear.
My instep arch not only keeps the ache,
It keeps the pressure of a ladder-round.
And I keep hearing from the cellar-bin
That rumbling sound
Of load on load of apples coming in.
For I have had too much
Of apple-picking; I am overtired
Of the great harvest I myself desired.
There were ten thousand thousand fruit to touch,
Cherish in hand, lift down, and not let fall,
For all
That struck the earth,
No matter if not bruised, or spiked with stubble,
Went surely to the cider-apple heap
As of no worth.
One can see what will trouble
This sleep of mine, whatever sleep it is.
Were he not gone,
The woodchuck could say whether it's like his
Long sleep, as I describe its coming on,
Or just some human sleep.

Robert Frost

The original painting was created on stretched canvas with professional grade oil paints.

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