Harold Meade Mott-Smith painted this lovely reminder of the sunny days to come. I found it on the Facebook page of Virago Modern Classics Readers, and they found it on tumblr. Thanks to them. The painting is actually called The Artist and His Wife, as I discovered from here -- a web page with a biography of the artist, which tells me he was born in Honolulu in 1872, and that his father was the first dentist to set up a practice in the Kingdom of Hawaii. Harold seems to have divided his time between Boston, Paris and Hawaii, where this one was painted. Sadly, he left a great many paintings in store in San Francisco, where they were destroyed in the earthquake. He died in 1948.
