#midsummer night

(Photo: d.)

Celebrated midsummer with a late night nature walk.

Midsummer Night or Iris is a study in iridescence, the effect of light the artist loved best. He loved to experiment with prisms to catch the effect of seeing colored light, and used such effects in this series of pictures. His daughter, Elaine, wrote, ‘My father was always fascinated by colour-iridescence. He would study the prismatic range in the beveled mirrors of candelabra; and if we children found in the big garden a bit of old glass, oxidized by age and weather, we would proudly take it to him, to add to his collection a box which lay open on a table beside his easel (Quoted in J. Sellars, ed., Atkinson Grimshaw. Painter of Moonlight, exh. cat., Harrogate, Mercer Art Gallery, 2011, p. 64).

Gouache , 100 x 70 cm.

John Atkinson Grimshaw (1836-1893) Midsummer Night or Iris (1876) Source

G1 My Little Pony comic #21 (1986) - The Magic Telescope

Blood fell shallow upon a sacred wood. In vain the search for violets faded. Frost crept on a final dismay for good, Before thorny bones appeared as should, And questioning eyes quickly abated.