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"Autumn," Marianne von Werefkin, c. 1907.

No, this isn't from the Madeline books by Ludwig Bemelmans, although it's certainly reminiscent. This is a few decades before that.

Russian-born von Werefkin (1860-1938) was a noted Expressionist painter who moved around a bit. She was from a noble Russian family, moved to Munich to immerse herself in the artistic and Expressionist scene (living on a pension from the Tsarist government), and fled to Switzerland at the outbreak of WWI, and experienced hardships after the October Revolution ended her pension and made her a stateless person. She passed away in the city of Ascona, where she is still a popular figure.

Here we have a scene of schoolgirls walking across a park as the sun sets. While cute on the surface, the paired-off students are all separate, and nobody seems to be talking or even looking at the other. Werefkin had a knack for depicting modern alienation, and despite her elite Tsarist background, would depict the common working man with dignity.

From the Museo Comunale d'Arte Moderna, Ascona, Italy.

An Expressionist painting. The scene is a city park at sunset. Against some mountains in the background. Some buildings can be seen to the right. On a path through bare trees, a group of girl students in school uniforms are walking, followed by their teacher. Although the girls walk two by two, the duos are spaced apart from each other, and there's no indication that they're speaking to each other or anything. Everyone seems intent on heading forward. The sky has a streak of orange against gray clouds.
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Matt Potter

In that painting, ‘Storm’ (1907), you can feel the figures resisting, in a Blakean way. Pushing against the forms that threaten, together. Their will becoming a force, & that force taking form in the physical world, as barriers, shelters, torrents, winds, trees.

The craving for protection and agency that the work of the mind, will & imagination could give her. Here it is again in ‘The Red Tree’.

The Red Tree, painting by Marianne von Werefkin. An artist sitting in the shadows of the mountain, with a red tree sheltering her from its bulk
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