Still Life & Landscape
Art by Lynn B. (Hutchins) Haney

These pictures of still life and landscapes were painted with oil on canvas or drawn with pencil or pastels on paper (except for one acrylic on paper and two etchings). Click on an image to see a larger version, more information, and price.

"The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul. If heed is not paid to this, it is not true music but a diabolical bawling and twanging."
--Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

Apples were they with which we were beguil'd,
Yet sin, not Apples, hath our souls defil'd.
Apples forbid, if eat, corrupts the Blood;
To eat such when commanded, does us good.
Drink of his Flagons, then, thou Church, his Dove,
And eat his Apples, who are sick of Love.
--John Bunyan (1628-1688), in The Pilgrim’s Progress

The Poet gathers fruit from every tree,
Yea, grapes from thorns and figs from thistles he.
Plucked by his hand, the basest weed that grows
Towers to a lily, reddens to a rose.
--Sir William Watson (1858-1935), "The Poet"

"I send you a rose, which ought to please you extremely, seeing what a rarity it is at this season. And with the rose you must accept its thorns, which represent the bitter suffering of our Lord, while the green leaves represent the hope we may entertain, that through the same sacred passion we, having passed through the darkness of this short winter of our mortal life, may attain to the brightness and felicity of an eternal spring in Heaven."
--Galileo Galilei (1564-1642), in a letter

"The real object of the First Amendment was not to countenance, much less to advance Mohammedanism, or Judaism, or infidelity, by prostrating Christianity, but to exclude all rivalry among Christian sects [denominations] and to prevent any national ecclesiastical patronage of the national government."
--Joseph Story, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (nineteenth century)

"We find the most terrible form of atheism, not in the militant and passionate struggle against the idea of God himself, but in the practical atheism of everyday living, in indifference and torpor. We often encounter these forms of atheism among those who are formally Christians."
--Nicolai A. Berdyaev

"If the man who paints only the tree, or flower, or other surface he sees before him were an artist, the king of artists would be the photographer. It is for the artist to do something beyond this."
--James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903)

"For don't you mark? we're made so that we love First when we see them painted, things we have passed Perhaps a hundred times nor cared to see; And so they are better, painted -- better to us, Which is the same thing. Art was given for that; God uses us to help each other so, Lending our minds out."
--Robert Browning (1812-1889), from "Fra Lippo Lippi"

"If we will not be governed by God, then we will be ruled by tyrants."
--William Penn

Fair Quiet, have I found thee here,
And Innocence, thy sister dear?
Mistaken long, I sought you then,
In busy companies of men.
Your sacred plants, if here below,
Only among the plants will grow;
Society is all but rude
To this delicious solitude.
--Andrew Marvell (1621-1678), from "The Garden"

"...Man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the Lord doth man live."
--Deuternomy 8:3

"An art work has value as a creation because man is made in the image of God, and therefore man not only can love and think and feel emotion, but also has the capacity to create. Being in the image of the Creator, we are called upon to have creativity. In fact, it is part of the image of God to be creative, or to have creativity."
--F. A. Schaeffer

"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
--Benjamin Franklin

Oh my black Soule! now thou art summoned
By sicknesse, deaths herald, and champion;
Thou art like a pilgrim, which abroad hath done
Treason, and durst not turne to whence hee is fled,
Or like a thief, which till deaths doome be read,
Wisheth himselfe delivered from prison;
But damn'd and hal'd to execution,
Wisheth that still he might be imprisoned;
Yet grace, if thou repent, thou canst not lacke;
But who shall give thee that grace to beginne?
Oh make thy selfe with holy mourning blacke,
And red with blushing, as thou art with sinne;
Or wash thee in Christs blood, which hath this might
That being red, it dyes red soules to white.
--John Donne (1572-1631)

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Still Life & Landscape Art by Lynn B. (Hutchins) Haney

Still Life & Landscape
Art by Lynn B. (Hutchins) Haney