A Spring Banquet in Cleveland

A Spring Banquet in Cleveland. by Julie Kwiatkowski Schuler

Spring Banquet in Cleveland

Painting of a Spring Banquet circa 1960's Cleveland, Ohio. Inspired by a vintage photo of the same subject.

Spring Banquet in Cleveland

Work in progress.

Spring Banquet in Cleveland

The Cleveland Banquet, work in progress by Julie Kwiatkowski Schuler.
It feels nice to slow down, and sink into a little group portrait like this. I can go table to table and see their faces. I can almost smell the perfume in their wool coats and hear that rolling wave of blended voices. They felt happy and elegant, or sad and anxious, but they smiled anyway. They were us before we got here. We are us, but we’re just leaving.