The River At Night
© 2013-2023
Media: oil & mastic on canvas
Location: in the studio
Hover/tap here for Price $6,900
56" x 40" (142 cm x 101 cm)
Embedded in the paint surface is an excerpt from the poem "Traveling West At Night" by W. S. Merwin (with his permission).
I remember waking at the rivers
to see girders of gray sleepless bridges
appearing from sleep out of a current
of cold night air velvet with the secret
coal smoke of those small hours and nobody
on night roads the few words of toll-keepers
old complaints of gates and cables the bark
of bridge floors leaping up from under us…
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For those of you with low vision:
This painting depicts the silhouette of a bridge, its latticework of open trusses, in a night sky of clouds bunched in a two-step with the lattice pattern all reflected in the water, and rendered in an abstract expressionist manner.
