The Spelling Bee
| Description: |
This painting depicts a spelling bee hosted for students inside of a schoolhouse. There is a line of children standing along the bottom edge in front of the teacher. The teacher is dressed in a blue dress and a white bonnet while holding an open book. There are a total of twelve children standing in line. A total of eight girls and four boys make up the students. Each is dressed in a different color of clothing. Unlike most of Schrocks other works, the figures in the painting have faces consisting of black eyes, eyebrows, a small mouth, a small nose, and pink cheeks. The visible wall of the schoolhouse has a large set of three windows and ten silhouettes surrounding the windows. The windows have three separate green pull-down window shades and a flower box filled with various flowers outside the windows. One can see three buggies outside the windows and five horses covered in either green or blue blankets hitched to the hitching posts outside the school. The title of the painting, The Spelling Bee, is located in the bottom edge off-centered to the right in black. Schrocks signature is in the bottom right corner in black. |
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| Source: |
https://elchc.catalogaccess.com/objects/17468 |
| Collection: |
Evelyn Lehman Culp Heritage Collection |
| Copyright: |
No Copyright - Non-commercial Use Only |
| Subjects: |
Emma Schrock Collection Emma Schrock, Paintings, Emma Schrock Collection, Art, Grandma Moses of Elkhart County The Spelling Bee |
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