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"This little child was painted entirely with the painting knife. You can see that the paint is applied with extreme thickness. This gives the portrait texture, which in turn produces deep shadows and highlights on the surface of the canvas. The background is almost as textural as the figure and they act harmoniously, one as important as the other." A.B.
This painting was done on location in Florida. Here is a unique example of the background contributing an expressionistic element to the painting, rather than serving simply as a foil for the subject. N.M.S.