Cosmos

This painting has been framed with a gold lined, linen liner and a variegated gold wooden frame. The framed dimensions are 35 x 45.25 in.

This painting is in excellent condition. 

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