The Spelling Bee

Description:	This painting depicts the more public version of a Spelling Bee in comparison to ES.012. The children are lining up around the room in front of their teacher to spell words out loud with their parents present. The background of this painting consists of yellow walls with three large picture windows on the back wall. These windows have brown wooden frames and green sunshades. Through the windows, one can see the snow covering the ground and multiple buggies hitched to the posts outside the school. Next to the windows on the back wall, there is a chalkboard with the statement, School is Four Walls with Tomorrow in it written in white. The teacher stands next to the chalkboard dressed in a blue dress and white bonnet, holding an open book. The children line up in front of the teacher along the outside of the large red floor rug. There are eighteen children in total around the rug. The eighteen consists of eleven girls and seven boys, all having different colors on. The parents of these children are seated along the left side of the painting and in front of the windows. There are ten mothers, three fathers, and two young children in the crowd watching the Spelling Bee. The men of the audience and in all black. The women are wearing a variety of colors including blues, pinks, black, and red. All of the crowd is properly seated facing the children. The title of this painting, The Spelling Bee, is in the center of the bottom edge in black. The date and copyright are in the bottom left corner in black. Schrocks signature is in the bottom right corner in black.
Origin:	11/13/1984
Source:	https://elchc.catalogaccess.com/objects/17511
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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