This is a painting I did while visiting a friend that lived in Fostoria Michigan.  This landscape painting was created when the field grasses were long and green and would bend with every gentle breeze of the wind.  I was inspired by the energies of nature in full bloom to capture this moment in time and paint it on canvas.

This is a plein aire painting that I had great fun creating while sitting on my friend Reed's back yard porch. Reed was living in farm country up in Fostoria in the thumb of Michigan. The landscapes up there are open spaces and fields in almost every direction you look in.

I wanted to do this painting as a minimal modernistic impressionistic landscape. Much like something that George Inness might have painted when he was still alive. My foreground grasses are great and done just the way that George Inness might have done them, but my tree line is a little too crisp or clear or too detailed.

The painting is one of my personal favorites because it seems to hold some of the life energies of the land itself. It also brings back some of those great old memories of the past times up north where life is a little more slowed down and enjoyed.

Title: A Fostoria Field

Artist: Mitchell J. Rose

Size: 26" X 32"

Dated: 6/28/1997

Price: $4,100.00

Type: Oil Painting

Medium: Oil on canvas

Style: Impressionism

Genre: Landscape