Study for Old Hay Harbor
© 1990
Media: watercolor on paper
Location: in the studio
14" x 17" inches (35 cm x 43 cm)
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For those of you with low vision:
This watercolor painting is a study for a larger painting, created with loose brushwork. It depicts multiple images collaged in a horizontally rectangular composition. On the right, a large square depicts the view from an open ferryboat looking out past its wake to the setting sun over the ocean. The sun is reflected brightly on the waves that extend in a pattern of strong vertical stripes across the water. On the distant horizon is the faint trace of a lighthouse. On the left is a slightly smaller panel with the view in an open-air bathhouse stretching down a corridor running between two rows of dark green doors standing equidistant apart, creating a pattern of orthogonals down the passage. Inbetween these two image panels is a vertical rectangle that shows a small tarnished mirror fastened to a trompe l’oeil wooden wall. Below these images is a shelf of four smaller panels, diminishing in shape from a rectangle to a square, left to right. The first is a panoramic view in blues and grays, the second shows a road stretching away into dark blues, with light blues on the top. The third is nearly a square depicting the view across a landscape, while the fourth is a perfect square, a beach view onto water.
