Please refer to photographs for condition. Original folk art, outsider, architectural painting. Floating in a sea of green grass, flowers, trees dripping in Spanish moss. Bahama shutters open to the breeze….. Front door thrown open… Shaded by big old trees. Hemingway House, Key West, Florida… The way it looked when Ernest lived there… Happy and full of fun.. Delightfully like human forms…. Stand guard on the deep shady porches. Different shades of blue curtains at all the tall windows. Signed on the stretcher “Hemingway Richard Arnold”. Oil or acrylic on stretched canvas 16″ x 20″. Edges and corners rough. Some background on this wonderful old house. It was on the advice of John Dos Passos that Hemingway was first prompted to visit Key West. Hemingway did not go directly from Paris, but rather arrived through Havana. Because the car had been delayed in transit, the Ford dealership insisted that they take up residence in an apartment located above the showroom. Ernest and Pauline accepted the offer, and he resumed work on a war story he had started on the ocean passage to Key West. The couple spent three weeks waiting for their car, and it was during this very brief three-week interlude that Ernest finished A Farewell To Arms. Soon after arrival, Hemingway made the acquaintance of Charles Thompson, who ran the local hardware store. Charles Thompson introduced Hemingway to the exciting world of big game sport fishing, and a long friendship was born. Both Ernest and Pauline grew to love Key West and its goofy locals, and soon decided to look for a permanent residence. The Hemingway home was built in 1851 in the Spanish Colonial style, and was constructed of native rock hewn from the grounds. It was the first in-ground pool in Key West, and the only pool within 100 miles. This item is in the category “Art\Paintings”. The seller is “haillais” and is located in this country: US. This item can be shipped to United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Denmark, Romania, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Finland, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Estonia, Australia, Greece, Portugal, Cyprus, Slovenia, Japan, China, Sweden, Korea, South, Indonesia, Taiwan, South Africa, Thailand, Belgium, France, Hong Kong, Ireland, Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Italy, Germany, Austria, Bahamas, Israel, Mexico, New Zealand, Philippines, Singapore, Switzerland, Norway, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, Croatia, Republic of, Malaysia, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Panama, Trinidad and Tobago, Guatemala, Honduras, Jamaica, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Belize, Dominica, Grenada, Saint Kitts-Nevis, Saint Lucia, Montserrat, Turks and Caicos Islands, Barbados, Bangladesh, Bermuda, Brunei Darussalam, Bolivia, Egypt, French Guiana, Guernsey, Gibraltar, Guadeloupe, Iceland, Jersey, Jordan, Cambodia, Cayman Islands, Liechtenstein, Sri Lanka, Luxembourg, Monaco, Macau, Martinique, Maldives, Nicaragua, Oman, Pakistan, Paraguay, Reunion, Uruguay.
- Type: Painting
- Size: Medium (up to 36in.)
- Region of Origin: US
- Original/Licensed Reproduction: Original
- Material: oil or acrylic
- Date of Creation: 2000-Now
- Painting Surface: Canvas
- Listed By: Dealer or Reseller
- Height (Inches): 16
- Width (Inches): 20
- notes: Unframed. Edges painted. Edges and corners rough.
