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This small oil painting was a gift from the artist to her sister. It depicts the family’s farm, located just south of Chicago in what is now the suburb of Evergreen Park. On the back of the painting is a dedicatory poem:

“A little glimpse of home my dear
As seen through loving eyes
And if the tear drops come my dear
And though thy tongue be dumb
I’ll join in thy surprise.”

The loose brushwork of the thick summer grasses, white-tipped flowers, and spots of light demonstrates Kellogg Tyler’s openness to the “modern” methods of Impressionism, at which she excelled. The painter was among the many Chicago artists whose work shifted in this direction in the wake of the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition, where work by the European Impressionists generated great excitement among American artists and patrons.