Last of 17 Lipton’s Soup paintings

Painting from a wheel chair because of her broken ankle wasn’t pleasant but Joy also found that this painting for the Lipton Soup Company, (there were five, containing 17 portraits in total), wasn’t so much her normal happy experience. The families were from every region of Canada so she was generally painting from photographs. This grouping seems to be the grimmest with their looks of indifference and boredom. Well the little chap on the right illustrates the difference but the others look a bit like they have just been handed some bad news. If we were wondering about the date one would think that my daughter had hair like that so it had to have been painted in the eighties. Its all rather stark and the photographer seems to have cut off the image a little too high leaving little chance for an interesting composition familiar in Joy’s work.