In the autumn of 1948, soon after the Clarks arrived at Talladega College, they found friendly staff and students,however there were a few insensitive European colleagues. It was after one encounter with the campus chaplain that spouse Daima came home angry and began to chop and cultivate the ground around the house. The theologian who had insulted her was known to students for racist statements such as: "I am free white and twenty-one , and "It's like saying a nigger in the woodpile." Daima Clark grew her winter garden and planted flowers all around the house each year. So it was that Claude Clark had plenty of flowers to paint when creative appetite called for that type of expression. After two summer sessions as a guest artist at Yaddo in 1953; He had revised his dry pigment palette with cadmiums (yellows, oranges and reds) blues and greens, "Growing Dahlias" was painted in the autumn of 1953. A fitting subject on which to practice his revised color palette. All printed posters were printed on high quality archival paper. Size is 24 X 30 inches Shipping is FREE inside the U.S.