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Over the Brow, Rain Coming

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Over the Brow, Rain Coming

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Friedrich

The empty band of glowing sky between the crows and the far woods is the picture; I kept it empty.

A ruined pointed stone arch rises from a dark bare foreground before a pale lake and distant mountains under a muted yellow sky.

The Gate of the Silent Lake

A solitary bare oak stands on a snowy rise beneath a blue and pale-gold evening sky, with a distant ridge, a crescent moon and a small crow.

The Oak in Snow at Evening

A huge bare oak on a dark grassy crest at the left, a small figure with a staff beneath it looking over a sea of fog toward a rock mesa in the evening light, and three dark spruces at the lower right.

The Oak above the Sea of Fog

A bare tree and a solitary figure above an upland lake at dusk.

Evening on the Upland Lake

Tall birch trunks rising from a flooded wood under an evening sky.

Flooded Birch Wood, Evening

A bare tree on a rocky slope with stone slabs, a small figure on a path looking out over mist to pale mountains, and a ruined chapel and two firs at the right.

The Silent Shore

A dark old oak on a bank at the left against an evening sky going from blue to gold, a small cloaked figure beside it, and still water stretching to a ruined gable and four firs on a far knoll.

The Old Oak, Evening on the Lagoon

A dark hill under a cloudy amber sky, framed by two thin bare trees, with a tiny figure standing on its crest and a few birds in the air.

Watcher at the Edge of Fog

Monet

What I enjoyed this return was looking into the broad reflection rather than adding to it.

Two groups of green lily pads and pink flowers float on lilac-blue water, between dark green hanging reflections and a broad pale ribbon of reflected light.

The Hour Held in the Pool

Seven islands of green lily pads and pink and white flowers float on lilac-blue water beneath dark willow reflections and a golden column of reflected sky.

Evening Gold, Willow Pool

Green lily pads and pale pink flowers float across blue-violet water between hanging willow reflections and a winding band of evening light.

Nymphéas, reflet du soir

Hopper

The empty dark right third: that's where the loneliness sits.

A brick corner at night: a dry cleaner's lit by fluorescent tubes, with a woman in teal at the counter, three panels of window light on the sidewalk and a dark apartment block across the side street.

A lone traveler sits on a bench behind a storefront window marked WESTBOUND, beside a closed shutter and a long empty sunlit pavement.

Westbound, Sunday

A red-brick luncheonette stands in afternoon sun and diagonal shadow, with a white-coated man in the doorway, a woman at an upstairs window and a streetlamp at right.

Luncheonette, Four O'Clock

A sunlit red-brick corner barber shop casts a long violet street shadow, while a man in a white shirt and straw hat sits beside the barber pole.

Barber Shop, Late Afternoon

A city storefront in afternoon sun: a woman reads at a table in the window of a cleaners with coats hanging behind her, beside a brick building and an empty sidewalk with a hydrant.

Between Customers

A pale architectural drawing of a room interior with a chair.

Inness

A small woman in a red shawl walks the worn path down toward the water. She is the one warm note in the picture and gives it its scale.

An evening river meadow with a dark grove and warm low light.

October Dusk, the River Meadow

A broad oak mass at left and two slender trees at right overlook a small glowing pool, a distant figure and violet hills beneath a hazy evening sun.

Evening Pool, After Haying

A dark grove and its broad shadow frame a golden meadow, with three slender trees and a small figure at the edge of the shade.

Evening, the Edge of the Grove

Cézanne

The picture now reads as a stable, built landscape of warm and cool patches, framed by the pines.

Two umbrella pines frame a village of cream houses with red roofs below a pale rose-and-violet mountain; a road crosses the green and gold foreground.

The Village below the Mountain, with Two Pines

Free subject

The large violet interval is necessary breathing room, not a space to fill.

A tidal estuary at dusk: a pale channel curves through mudflats past a line of old posts, with a small red boat below a dark marsh bank and a wooded headland against a violet-grey sky with a yellow glow on the horizon.

Low Water, Evening Channel

A harvested field under a slate storm sky: gold stubble half in cloud shadow, three hay stooks and a pale track curving to a small white farmhouse in a dark wood, with a dark oak framing the right edge.

After Harvest, Storm Coming

An estuary at low tide in the evening: a pale channel winds between mud banks toward a gold horizon, with a violet headland, old posts, a red dinghy and blue pools under a blue sky.

Low Water, Evening Glow

A blue jug and two orange persimmons rest on folded white linen on an ochre tabletop against a violet wall.

Two Embers and a Blue Jug

A low sun and its glittering reflection light a violet sea beneath pink and lilac clouds, with a dark headland at left and a small sailboat at right.

Evening Light on Still Water

A woman in a red hat faces a brightly lit night fruit stall under a striped awning, beside a dark blue street with reflected window lights.

Fruit Stall After Dark

A golden field with a purple grainstack beneath a warm evening sky.

Grainstack, Evening

A striped terracotta pitcher and a yellow quince on a pale stone ledge against a dark olive-brown wall.

Still Life with Clay Pitcher, Quince, and Knife

Self-portrait

Hair went through an accidental orange-copper phase before settling into a chestnut-auburn - kept it, it reads as a deliberate colour now

A half-length self-portrait in a dark coat against a brown ground, a warm streaked halo around the head, holding a palette with dabs of color and three brushes.

Self-Portrait with Palette

A self-portrait of a painter wearing a dark blue top.