Paintings - Concord Grape Vine

Concord Grape Vine is a 14.5 x 14.5 oil on panel painting framed by the artist with weathered wood. Grape vine twists on an arbor with drops of morning dew glistening off their leaves. Concords are a robust and aromatic grape whose ancestors were wild native species found growing in rugged New England soil.

Something about this American favorite since 1854, after Boston-born Ephraim Wales Bull planted 2200  seedlings from cuttings, looking for an early ripening grape. He won a prize at the Boston Horticultural Society in 1853 but died poor. Inscription on his grave reads - "He sowed, others reaped."