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The Passing Storm

The Passing Storm, Shenandoah Valley
Alexis Fournier
1924
Oil on cardboard
Virginia Historical Society
Lora Robins Collection of Virginia Art

As late as the 1920s, painters still looked to find bucolic scenery in the Valley. Here Alexis Fournier shows that nature is always renewing itself, and in turn the spirit of those who depend upon the land for their well being. Fournier was a Minnesota painter who in 1893 had traveled to Paris for training. Working on site in the Valley, probably in Rockingham County or further north, he adapted French Impressionism to an idyllic setting.

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