Impressions of Hollyhocks

American Impressionists liked hollyhocks.  Hollyhocks lend themselves nicely to dabs and daubs.

Childe Hassam did them proud.

Celia Thaxter, the pensive lady to the left, lived on Appledore and hosted artists, writers and painters.

Nice links:

- very nice; About Celia Thaxter's Island Garden
They recommend another blog that is their garden intern, Erica Anderson, as she blogs from Appledore this summer! Island Gardener 2014

If you have the chance to visit the Isle of Shoals, off Portsmouth, New Hampshire, you hopefully will experience this amazing light that Hassam has captured in the following painting.  While you will not get to Appledore Island, you can do a day visit to an island within sight!  It is wonderful.

If you are interested in the Portsmouth and the  Isle of Shoals
 you will like the Yankee Magazine blog about it.