{"id":544,"date":"2022-06-12T01:30:03","date_gmt":"2022-06-12T01:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevethought.net\/antiques\/?p=544"},"modified":"2022-06-12T01:34:10","modified_gmt":"2022-06-12T01:34:10","slug":"kenneth-spencer-picture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevethought.net\/antiques\/index.php\/2022\/06\/12\/kenneth-spencer-picture\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenneth Spencer Picture"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stevethought.net\/antiques\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Two_58.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/stevethought.net\/antiques\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/IMG_0180.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-154\" width=\"478\" height=\"359\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stevethought.net\/antiques\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/IMG_0180.jpg 640w, https:\/\/stevethought.net\/antiques\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/IMG_0180-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 478px) 100vw, 478px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Kenneth Spencer\u2019s picture of harvesting man with a Husker steam traction engine was a great joy of mine because of the smoke entering the cloud and the sun hitting the red part of the Husker\u2019s wheel. I felt it was a bargain at $1500. And the painter was able to recall it when I met him at an art exhibit some years later. The picture also was meaningful to me because it depicted a world I could never enter, the outdoor work in hay and grass of summer which my whole life gave me horrible allergic troubles. His smaller oil \u201cThe Careen Windows\u201d came along 2-3 years later and evokes the early morning walks in autumn with his wonderful use of textures and colors. I believe the sky would not still be so blue if there were evening autumn shadows. It was the best in his show and a bargain at $1120.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kenneth Spencer\u2019s picture of harvesting man with a Husker steam traction engine was a great joy of mine because of the smoke entering the cloud and the sun hitting the red part of the Husker\u2019s wheel. I felt it was a bargain at $1500. And the painter was able to recall it when I met [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":154,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevethought.net\/antiques\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevethought.net\/antiques\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevethought.net\/antiques\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevethought.net\/antiques\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevethought.net\/antiques\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=544"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevethought.net\/antiques\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":545,"href":"https:\/\/stevethought.net\/antiques\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544\/revisions\/545"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevethought.net\/antiques\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevethought.net\/antiques\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevethought.net\/antiques\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevethought.net\/antiques\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}