Gibson Girl
© 2023
Media: oil on canvas
Location: in the studio
Hover/tap here for Price $3100 framed
16 x 48 inches
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For those of you with low vision:
This painting shows a porch in muted beigewoodwork looking out through railings and pilasters to the shingle roof with gables and the white clapboard facade that extends back to the left side of the painting, all tucked inder a striped dark green and white awning in a bravado montage of classic American club architecture that would make Vincent Scully croon. The ceiling of the porch is lit by strong amber light coming through the window on the right, which also shows, reflected in that window glass, the sunlit ocean out that room, of which we can only see a few amber-lit patterns in a play of rectangles. Patterns are the main motif of the painting; the lines of the railing's spindles against the lines of the clapboard, and spindles of a gable porch, and the lines of the shingle roof, the gables and shutters, counterpointed to the montage of rectangles on the right.
Next to the window is a door partly open with a woman leaning back against it to push it open, with her face just visible to her cheeks and a whisper of an eye. She is in a dark green jersey, with straight brunette hair and pale skin.
