"It's beautiful here tonight," she thought. "No matter where you go, you can't get away from beauty. But, heavens, what a lot I've had to go through to be able to recognize it."

"It's beautiful here tonight," she thought. "No matter where you go, you can't get away from beauty. But, heavens, what a lot I've had to go through to be able to recognize it."
"It's beautiful here tonight," she thought. "No matter where you go, you can't get away from beauty. But, heavens, what a lot I've had to go through to be able to recognize it."

"It's beautiful here tonight," she thought. "No matter where you go, you can't get away from beauty. But, heavens, what a lot I've had to go through to be able to recognize it."

Date1923
Artist (American painter, illustrator, and muralist, 1887–1962)
Illustration Citation"Making a Man of Him," by Bernice Brown, in Ladies' Home Journal, October 1923.
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions27 3/4 × 35 1/2 in. (70.5 × 90.2 cm)
frame: 32 3/4 × 40 3/16 in. (83.2 × 102.1 cm)
Credit LineBequest of Alene Hoskins, 1978
Object number1978-676
On View
On view
ClassificationsPAINTING
Label TextIn a reversal of the common theme of heading West for adventure, this story portrays Aida Sparks, a waitress in a rural restaurant, who sacrifices all she has, including a gold watch, for the man she loves, so that he can escape the harsh Minnesota prairie and travel East. Here she recognizes the beauty of the expansive plains while recalling the bleakness of her life.
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