Artist: Robert Bissell
Title: THE RHAPSODY
Limited Edition Print Canvas
Size: 11" x 17"
Edition of: 100
Status: EDITION RETIRED.

This painting and The Rapture was created after I read a piece by Thomas Hardy, who lived near where I grew up in England. There was one line in particular that drove some images in my mind:

In the summertime my father used to like lying on the meadow bank by the river and have all the grassyhoppers jump all over him.

The actors changed; but the shared pleasure in nature remained. - Robert Bissell