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American heartland barn dance.  By William Medcalf Barn Dance Party, Contra Dance, Family Artwork, Americana Art, Barn Dance, Dance Paintings, Country Dance, Classic Americana, Line Dance

Capitalizing on the mid-1950s nostalgia for a lost vision of the American heartland, William Medcalf presents a view of a 19th century midwest barn dance, with smiling couples who appear plucked straight of out of the 1955 Academy Award winning musical Oklahoma!. This large, colorful, highly expressive oil on board with graphite highlights was created as the final preliminary painting for a published Brown & Bigelow calendar image. During the 50s, Bil Medcalf was known as one of the…

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