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Message:: [QUOTE="User 67, post: 8507, member: 67"]There is a lot of incongruity to this piece, which makes it look like student work. The faces look like a hallmark card from the 1960s. The right side of the midground is somewhat abstract. the left side is German expressionist, the sun is impressionist. The figures are standing stiffly; the hands, except for one, is hidden -meaning the artist can't draw hands. Drawing an umbrella is always a challenge, more so than hands. The artist has centered the composition around this damn umbrella, displaying it flat and as a silhouette, not a three dimensional object, which, like I said, is difficult to do. The reason the artist probably didn't draw the umbrella staff is because it would be going through the woman's head. You won't find many artists who will draw more than one umbrella, and those who are good at it like to show off and do them all the time. This is not showing off. The tree and the house, in the background, are very nice, but have nothing to do with the rest of the image. In fact, the background should recede and not be more detailed or 'in focus' than the foreground. As far as the name goes, I am pretty bad at reading artist's handwriting. I just wrote what I 'saw', hoping it might help someone figure out the real signature.[/QUOTE]