Four Seasons Table

The Four Seasons of American Art
Suzy Jorsey Balay
2007


I have painted a table that is now in the Childrens Art Lab at the New Britian Museum of American Art:



I wanted to create a table that was interactive and also be able to relate to the art within the museum. The chalkboard center allows young minds to create at will. I found a painting within the Museum that I really enjoyed called the Community Garden at Sunrise, by Scott Prior. You could feel the warm August sun rising above the dew-speckled flowers. That was it! The Seasons. This museum is full of unbelievable places. The paintings can take you on a journey though the seasons. Please, explore the galleries and see if you can feel the seasons as I did.

Spring: Bradbury’s Mill Dam in Spring, 1910-15
Edward Francis Rook
Can you hear the water over the rocks as the stream begins to spring to life? Feel the cooler air on our face as you walk from the woods to the stream. See buds on the trees filtering the sun in preparation for the new leaves to emerge.

Summer: Community Garden at Sunrise, 2006
Scott Prior
The early morning, birds are singing to great the day. It is the best time of day to sort though the flowers and pull the unwanted weeds. The bees are scurrying around form flower-to-flower collecting their gold. Now sun has risen high enough to heat the garden; it is your time to relax; your work is done.

Fall: Lake Wawayanda, Sussex Country, New Jersey, 1870
Jasper Francis Cropsey
It is the last days of the Indian summer. The sun, shining as bright as it can, but still you need to pull on a sweater. The Foliage is screaming with intense warm colors as you breathing deep to feel the crisp clean air.

Winter: Winter landscape, 1886
Samuel Carr
Your skates glide across the frozen pond as your legs feel ever little bump in the ice. It’s a cold day but not too cold to keep you inside for you know that the new snow on the horizon brings a cold wind for the next day.