What is the painting of Grif Teller with title Sunshine Lights The Homeward Road?

Answer 1

The painting, Sunshine Lights the Homeward Road, was painted by Grif Teller, no later than 1936. The image was used by The Osborne Company on advertising calendars for 1937 and 1938.

The text below was included with each calendar:

SUNSHINE LIGHTS THE HOMEWARD ROAD

Reproduced from the Original Painting by Grif Teller

Published and Copyrighted by The Osborne Company, Clifton, New Jersey

From Grif Teller's golden palette comes this picture, bathed in the sunlight of a July afternoon. He and the sun painted it together. It was the sun which dappled green leaves with flecks of brilliant yellow, painted blue shadows in the depths of foliage, drew a soft veil over dazzling distances, patterned even a commonplace fence-rail it designs in purple and gold, highlighted a man's strong shoulders and the broad flanks of farm horses. With a master's touch, the artist has captured all this harmony of warm color: the delicate foliage of bending boughs, the hint of deep woodland where perhaps a brook goes singing, the firm earth of mown field and country road, the tread of horses' hoofs, the quiet poise of manhood at the picture's heart.

He has done more: somehow - one wonders how - he has suggested the working day which now draws to its close. It has been one of those priceless days in haying-time, not shadowed by threatening skies, not interrupted by nervous cloud-ward glances. And now, upon the homeward road, we remember that at this high season of the year the sunshine lasts well beyond "quitting time," so there will still be an hour or two for work, companionship and laughter in the home garden, where the same sun is making flowers bloom and vegetables ripen.

"How good is man's life, the mere living!"

In the warmth of the sunshine that floods the picture, we muse upon the sun as mother of earth's good things -- of color and food, of the brown legs of healthy children, the deep lungs of outdoor men and women, spreading trees, fragrant hay, and the kind light that shines upon field and road and the familiar doorstep of home.