Weston Morrow

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Author of Cloud Builder, winner of the National Poetry Series. I teach writing at Ohio State. Westonmorrow.com

quoted text, "Constable remarked to his friend Fisher: "I do hope to sell this present picture--as it has certainly got a little more eye-salve than I usually give them." By "eye-salve" he probably meant picturesque details such as the drinking boy, the donkey's grazing the bank dotted with poppies and cow parsley, the flock of sheep, distant village and meandering river."
quoted text from the National Gallery, "The lane still exists but the countryside shown beyond it was largely conjured up in Constable's studio. The church tower and cluster of red-roofed houses 'never existed,' as the artist's son Charles Constable was later to point out--Constable invented the village."
"The Cornfield," by John Constable, 1826