Charles Courtney Curran — Blue Delphiniums in the Garden · Postcard

Barefoot light in a pale linen dress, a young woman stands chest-deep among spikes of blue delphinium, pink roses climbing the trellis behind her and a small stone cherub half-hidden in the hedge. Charles Courtney Curran lets the flowers tower over her, taller than she is, turning the garden into the real subject of the picture. The blue is cooler and quieter than the reds and yellows in his other borders.