Post artists portrayed winter’s transformation with meandering
paths, trudging footsteps, and rolling hills. Of winter’s
lifeless world each tree now seems a perfect part; Yet each one
holds summer’s secret deep down within its heart. —Charles G.
Slater This scene with its impressionistic, stark, winter trees
is an inside illustration from Country Gentleman, a sister
magazine of The Saturday Evening Post. The artist, Walter
Emerson Baum (1884-1956), was born in Sellersville,
Pennsylvania, and painted many landscapes of his home state. He
is particularly known for his rugged work ethic; he frequently
painted outdoors, even as winter storms raged. Baum, in addition
to illustrating and producing fine art, was an art teacher in
Allentown, Pennsylvania, from 1926 to 1956. He was also a
writer, a columnist for the Sellersville Herald and eventually
he became the paper’s editor. He wrote the book Two Hundred
Years, a history of the Pennsylvania Germans in his hometown.
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