Cosmos (4)

This watercolour is painted on Waterford paper, with a watermark on the lower left corner and along the bottom of the painting.

It has not been previously framed or exhibited. It has recently been framed with archival material, UV protective glass and an antique white and silver wooden moulding by Roma Moulding. The framed dimensions are 31.5 x 39 in.

In "Wildflowers of Canada - Impressions and Sketches of a Field Artist" Molly writes:

COSMOS

I remember cosmos against the stone wall in our garden in Vancouver. We had a grass tennis court and friends came to play every summer weekend. My mother made tea in a big pot and brown bread sandwiches and plum cake. There was milk from our cow in a willow pattern jug and the men wore white flannel pants. I loved to get up early in the morning and roll the court before the dew left it. The roller was heavy and as I went up and down it made two swatches of different tones of green. 

Here in New Brunswick every small farm has a random bed of cosmos somewhere between the battery of high bird house (for the purple martins) and the whirling bleach bottles. 

Bruno grows cosmos, and I love to paint them. In the fall I race against the first killing frost to put down all they suggest to me. I have an old brush with a few hairs left in it which helps me say something about the elegance of these crisp-growing fronds.

Molly Lamb Bobak