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I am fortunate to count among my friends an artist of such talent as Jeannette Caruth. Her art makes such an impression on me that I would be remiss if I did not expose her work to the widest audience possible. <\/p>\n
This is her impression of Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s Sleeping Girl<\/a>, also known as Girl with Cat.\n<\/p>\n Jeanette is a self-taught artist with a serenely beautiful attitude toward life. I featured her impression of Renoir’s Luncheon of the Boating Party in an earlier post<\/a>.<\/p>\n In the last few months, she has painted impressions of more than a dozen Renoir paintings. Her paintings continue to be imbued with life. By that I mean that the people portrayed appear to be more alive than those in the original paintings. <\/p>\n Her paintings seem to have a calming and spiritual effect on those who view them. I would venture to guess that this is a result of her personal philosophy. <\/p>\n Jeannette is also an object lesson for those who wonder if perseverance ever pays off. She supports herself by working part-time in a pharmacy and selling paintings at craft fairs while honing her skills as an artist. She began painting faces only a few months ago. <\/p>\n I have posted a dozen more of her paintings in a new photo album titled Renoir by Caruth<\/a>. If you would like to contact her about reproductions of these or other paintings, email her at jccaruth@hotmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n I’m sure she would be delighted to hear from you. I would like her to get the recogniton she deserves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I am fortunate to count among my friends an artist of such talent as Jeannette Caruth. Her art makes such an impression on me that I would be remiss if I did not expose her work to the widest audience possible. <\/p>\n This is her impression of Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s Sleeping Girl<\/a>, also known as Girl with Cat.\n<\/p>\n![\"sleeping_girl.web.jpg\"](\"http:\/\/artchive.floridaimaging.com\/r\/renoir\/girl_with_cat.jpg\")
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