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John Sharman, At the End of the Porch, about 1918, 

oil on canvas, 36 x 34-1/4 in., Indiana Museum of Art

John Sharman (1879-1971) was an American artist who studied with Frank Benson and Edmund Tarbell at Boston’s Museum School. There he honed his ability to capture effects of light. A writer for the Boston Transcript describes this painting as a:

“a beautiful, luminous and joyous picture of a place where one would like to be. It represents a glassed-in porch, in the summer, and a lady sitting at her work; through the windows may be seen masses of shrubbery and white blossoms. An admirable canvas, it has the quality of reserve, but that does not prevent it from conveying with singular aptitude a most artistic impression of a lovely scene.”