Charles Courtney Curran — Flowering Hillside · Art Postcard

Small against a wide hillside, a woman in white shields her eyes among flowering pink and white shrubs, slender white birches rising beside her and clouds banked across a blue sky. Charles Courtney Curran pulls back further than usual here, letting the landscape carry as much weight as the figure in it.

A wide, airy pick for anyone who prefers scenery to portraiture — or for filling a big envelope with summer light.