Trailer Dogs by Bethanne Hill

Bethanne Hill. Detail of Trailer Dogs, 2005. Acrylic on wood. 35 x 24 ½ in. Courtesy of the Museum of Art-DeLand.

On a seemingly bleak fall day, stands a small white house on stilts. Surrounded by vivid life, the house is framed field of corn, a large roof antenna, a tree losing its leaves, a wooden wagon, and empty plots of land. In the foreground, four dogs frolic and play on a geometric yellow and black path contoured with silver rocks. A light brown dog lays curled up into a ball in the middle of the pack. Above and below, two yellow dogs bark. To the right, a white dog spawls on her back. In the background, three crows stand watch.