The Sunflower

This painting hung in our house. It is a pretty good size maybe 36" x 24" and I seem to remember mom winning awards with it. Again it is just about the flower. I feel this predates the Poppies since the feel of this is much more rigid and not as loose as she got with the Poppies and even the Apples.

the sunflower

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Sig. of B. Capobianco makes me think this is an earlier oil

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(unfortunately the color is off )

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(unfortunately the color is off )

Poppies

Flowers. Mom would paint a lot of flowers. She'd take pictures of flowers and set up still-lifes of flowers. So let's conclude mom's oil period with two flower paintings. Both are interesting because they are both against white. The first is this odd little experimental gem. Poppies. She once more applied her heavy oil technique on this kind of lucite board. There is a nice looseness to the painting. A playful quality. Some flowers are more successful than others. It appears she was more learning here to paint in a loose way. Perhaps it was an assignment from her art class. In the end she did sign it. So she did find it a finished piece.

poppies 

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signature  of just Capobianco. So possibly an earlier oil in which she is learning or she just defaulted to signing it in her previous way.