Sir Alfred James Munnings The Morning Ride - 1912 (a portrait of Florence Carter-Wood) oil on canvas 20" x 24" |
The film adaptation of Jonathan Smith's novel Summer in February opens in Great Britain in just a few days, and after watching the movie trailer, my biggest complaint is that it is not set to open concurrently in the United States. Set against the backdrop of the Cornish coast, Summer in February tells the tragic and haunting tale of the love triangle between artist A.J. Munnings (later, Sir Alfred), Florence Carter-Wood, and Gilbert Evans, the land agent in charge of the Lamorna Valley estate where the Lamorna members of the Newlyn School lived and painted. Smith's story, which has been republished nearly a dozen times since it debuted in 1995, is a true story based on the diaries of Evans, which his son David discovered years after his father's death. I cannot wait to see it!