“In Foxgloves a woman stand in a garden, enveloped in variegated flowers and verdant foliage. Conveying a romantic parallel between the woman and flowers, he blends her into the background essentially placing a “flower” within the flowers. Frieseke noted, “My one idea is to reproduce flowers in sunlight. I do not suggest detail by form, [but use] strokes of color in oil to produce the effect of vibration, completing as I go…If you are looking at a mass of flowers in the sunlight out of doors you see a sparkle of spots of different colors–then paint them that way…Often one obtains accidental notes out of doors which really construct a picture…” (C.T. MacChesney, “Frieseke Tells Some of the Secrets of His Art,” New York Times, June 7, 1914 as quoted in Frederick Carl Frieseke: The Evolution of an American Impressionist, p. 88)

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