Amish School Days

by Marilyn Smith

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$350

Dimensions

12.000 x 12.000 inches

Title

Amish School Days

Artist

Marilyn Smith

Medium

Painting - Watercolor

Description

I have always been fascinated by the way of life that the Amish continue to carry on through so many generations. It is a simpler way of life and yet much more difficult than modern day farmers. The work is much harder when it is done by hand and without the convenience of today's technology and equipment.
This landscape country scene is a real schoolhouse and yard in Wisconsin. It was built by the local Amish community and the neighborhood children walk to school or come by horse and buggy if they live any large distant away. It is not uncommon to see them walk down the country roads in the bare feet during the warmer months. These children are dressed in their typical attire which includes plain colored clothing, black pants for the boys and men with straw hats or black hats, ankle length dresses of various colors for the females and their bonnets that are always so crisp and ironed perfectly, and sometimes black or white aprons.
Central Wisconsin is where a number of Amish communities have sprung up over recent years. In fact, Wisconsin's Amish population is the fourth largest in North America.
Amish children begin helping with small tasks at a very early age and continue to contribute more as they grow. To see the little children all dressed in the same attire as the adults is so charming.
One Amish community is near the city of Portage, Wisconsin. The people have established themselves on many farms in the area and provide all the necessary needs for each other. They have built furniture shops, bakeries, general stores, cheese factories, quilt shops, and buggy shops where they produce the black buggies that are so familiar to us all. Their general stores and bakeries are always filled with neighboring people and visitors to the area. The Amish people are very friendly to everyone they meet or wait on in their shops and will always give a cheerful wave to you whenever you pass them on the road or drive past their perfectly groomed front yards. They have the most beautiful flower and vegetable gardens where everyone in the family seems to do their part in keeping it just perfect.
This is the fifth painting in my Amish family life series.
Marilyn Smith

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May 20th, 2019

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