A Pair Plus One

by AnnaJo Vahle

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14.000 x 11.000 x 0.500 inches

Title

A Pair Plus One

Artist

AnnaJo Vahle

Medium

Painting - Acrylic On Canvas

Description

This is a still-life of three pears on a shelf. I painted this using acrylic paints on stretched denim. Eleven inches high, it is fourteen inches wide. Not wanting to cover up the blue denim, I left the background simple. This would be a great image for the kitchen or dining room.

I painted this alla prima using three Bartlett pears as a model. I was planning to cook them in a recipe but thought them interesting enough to use them for the subject of a painting first. I set them atop my bookshelf next to my eisel and did a painting of them.

This is the most commonly grown variety of pear in most countries outside Asia. It is a cultivated variety of the species Pyruus communis, commonly known as the European Pear. The fruit has a bell shape, considered the traditional pear shape in the west. Its green skin turns yellow upon later ripening, although red-skinned derivative varieties exist. It is considered a summer pear. It is not as tolerant of cold as some varieties. It is often eaten raw, but holds it shape well when baked. It is a common choice for canned or other processed pear uses.

The origins of this variety are uncertain. Good Christian is named after Francis of Paola, a holy man whom King Louis XI of France had called to his deathbed as a healer in 1483. Francis offered the king a pear seed from his native Calabria with instructions to plant and care. Hence the pear tree was call Good Christian. A nurseryman named Williams later acquired the variety. After introducing it to the rest of England, the pear became known as the Williams Pear.

In 1799, James Carter imported several Williams trees into the United States. They were planted on the grounds of Thomas Brewer in Roxbury, Massachusetts. The Massachusetts estate was later acquired by Enoch Bartlett of Dorchester, Massachusetts. Unaware of their origin, Bartlett named the pears after himself. It was not realized that Bartlett and Williams Pears were the same until 1828, when new trees arrived from Europe. By that time, the Bartlett variety had become vastly popular in the United States. They are still generally known as Bartlett Pears in the US and Canada, although there are about 150 other synonyms worldwide.

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