Ireland, 1904. A summer garden. Light doing exactly what Irish light does when it finally decides to show up.
Summertime captures a sun-drenched moment of ease — figures at rest in a garden, the warmth of a good Irish summer afternoon held in paint with Lavery's characteristic impressionist touch. It is not a grand subject. That is precisely why it works. Lavery had the gift of finding the extraordinary in the ordinary, of stopping time at exactly the moment worth keeping.
It hangs in the National Gallery of Ireland. It is a painting about the particular joy of a warm afternoon in a country that does not take warm afternoons for granted.
Sir John Lavery (1856–1941) was born in Belfast, trained in Glasgow and Paris, and became one of Ireland's most celebrated painters. His work is held in the National Gallery of Ireland, the Tate, and major collections worldwide.
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