Tuesday, March 3, 2015

Portrait of Evangeline, Longfellow's folk heroine by Texas Portrait Artist Juli Koroly

Evangeline
24x48
available on my Etsy site

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This portrait is of Evangeline the  focus of Longfellow epic poem of the  same name. Evangeline lost her love and searched her whole life only to find him and have him die in her arms. The poem has created a folk heroine ,who is said to have become one with the trees when she died of a broken heart. I tried to catch her spirit. *note her eyes , they are birds…