"Country Kitten"

Artist: Donald Zolan
Genre: All Genres
Size of Original: 30" by 30"

This little boy must have felt it was his lucky day when he found the kitten in front of him crouched behind the wagon wheel. The kitten is only a few weeks old and the boy is being very gentle with it. It's a gray kitten with a white face and a white tip on its tail. It can't be very far from its mother because it's still so small. Soon the boy may lift the kitten in his arms, hold it gently and then talk to it as he walks off through the fields. Zolan creates a sense of softness and tenderness with the soft sunlight, the wispy blades of grass, the kitten's soft fur and the boy's soft touch. Maybe the kitten chased a butterfly through the grass and ended up farther away from home than it meant to. But now it has found refuge behind the big wheel and gentleness in this little boy. He looks like a country boy with his blue and white checkered shirt and his blue jeans. He's recently combed his hair because it is still slicked back with water.