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Oil on plywood. Signed lower right: "O. Kerhart 1936". On reverse: labels from Umělecká Beseda exhibitions. Balanced colors and spatial fields reign over this niche of the landscape filled with tranquility and calm. Using thick patches of impasto, the painter sets his palette of green tones into motion, creating a harmonious landscape experience. Close to his heart, the landscape around Poděbrady became one of his lifelong themes that he continuously returned to. Exhibited at: 1939, Umělecká Beseda exhibition at the Municipal House (Prague), catalogue no. 32; 1959, Umělecká Beseda exhibition at Aleš Hall. Painter, typographer, illustrator and playwright Oldřich Kerhart (1895 Poděbrady –1947 Prague) graduated from high school in Nymburk in 1914. Until 1918 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague under Professor Jan Preisler, but he never completed his studies. He traveled throughout Italy and Yugoslavia, and visited Corsica, Sicily and Paris. From 1920 he participated in Umělecká Beseda exhibitions, and the UB magazine Život presented reproductions of his paintings in 1921–1922. In 1942 he was made chairman of Umělecká Beseda. Collected exhibitions of Oldřich Kerhart's oeuvre were held at Aleš Hall in 1928 and 1939. The landscape around the Bohemian Elbe (Labe) River valley is a favorite theme in his paintings.