Lightning Struck a Flock of Witches - William Holbrook Beard Framed Canvas
Description
Lightning Struck a Flock of Witches ignites nineteenth-century American dread with William Holbrook Beard’s storm-lit sabbath: bone-pale flyers whirl across lampblack night, hair streaming, gowns billowing, skullish masks flashing under a sulfur beam. Tenebrist glare carves ribcage angles, clawed fingers, wind-caught hems; a broom-rider hunches forward, tail tuft smearing charcoal air.
American Gothic impulses fuse with occult lore, sabbath flight, tempest superstition and macabre burlesque. Lightning supplies ruthless modeling, turning fabric to chalky plaster, skin to mortuary glaze.
The composition stages folklore physics: shock, lift, spin, drop. Result: a coven unstitched, gravity renegotiated, terror etched into a single flare, nineteenth-century mythography distilled into storm-born theatre, phantasm study, omen tableau, sky-scripted calamity.
About the Canvas
Make any room a showpiece
• Luscious artist-grade cotton canvas, finely textured for depth and precision.
• Hand-stretched and natural white to capture light/color with striking clarity.
• Printed with non-toxic, water-based pigments that stay vivid for decades.
• Precisely measured floating frame that creates a sleek, gallery-worthy effect.
• Sustainably sourced FSC® certified European knotless pine.
3 distinctive frame colors
Black: Suits every style from bold modernity to gothic opulence.
White: Helps art shine bright in dark rooms to lift your mood.
Natural: Infuses warmth with its rich, honeyed tones.
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Delivery & Refunds
Only the Best Will Do
Artist-grade cotton with lush, finely grained texture. Engineered to capture every intricate brushstroke and subtle gradient.
Giclée Printing
Forget 4 color CMYK. Giclée layers up to 12 — alive with deeper shadows, richer highlights and multidimensional contrasts.
A Century of Color
Printed using a pro-lab process that helps art stay bold & breathtaking for up to 100 yr with non-toxic, archival-grade inks.
