There are some fine non-Soutine paintings, like Avigdor Arikha's picture of colorful socks on a wood surface; Frank Auerbach's small, thickly painted, nearly abstract
urban streetscape; and Lucien Freud's painting of backyard
shrubbery.
On one of July's hottest days in Birmingham, Alabama, a team of Protective Life Corporation employees converged at the Joe Rush Center for
Urban Mission and quickly battled a mass of overgrown
shrubbery and trees, giving a fresh look to the mission camp.