. . . over this beautiful painting of a mother and child in a Mexican marketplace. The woman, her serene face framed by flowing black hair, sits behind her stall offering bright yellow bananas and other brilliantly colored fruit, while her son peeks shyly from behind her. Behind this charming family scene, the cobblestone street stretches between high earth-tone walls. allowing a glimpse of the sapphire sky and a distant church steeple.
The painting is signed "Long." The artist is Robert T. Long. Although Long attended the Art Institute of Chicago and traveled to Europe on a fellowship when he graduated in 1938, he did not follow his passion to paint until 1967, when he turned 50 years old. He quit his job as a writer and producer of television commercials and moved to the Mexican city of San Miguel de Allende with his wife, Ann. In 1986, one of Long's paintings was among the 40 paintings selected, out of a total of some 11,000 entries, by the American Association of Retired Persons to appear in Modern Maturity magazine's "Seasoned Eye" exhibit. Long was further awarded the grand prize for his work.
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