Dawn Over Mount Adams

                                                 An original oil painting, on gessoed panel
                                                 18x9", unframed
                                                 $600.00, - (plus $20.00, pack and ship)

     This was another painting which I hadn't looked at in years.  The subject was from
an area of Cincinnati, in the mid to late 1960's.  Mount Adams is one of a number of
steep, hilltop communities clustered around the central city, and it is surmounted by a
venerable, old cathedral at the very summit of the hill.  At that time, the formerly
blue-collar area had become a trendy, artist's colony, with an old-world atmosphere.
But its growing popularity destined it to be taken over for redevelopment as as an
enclave for residents who were wealthier than the displaced artists, who could no longer
afford to live there.

                                                               (click on image to enlarge)

     The painting seems to reveal a variety of different influences in my work at that time.
The houses and windows are simplified to a nearly cubist treatment, reminiscent of a
Cezanne landscape, as are the the equally simplified trees and shrubs, which are rounded
into flowing shapes to fit the composition.  While at the same time, the dawn light,
breaking from behind the cathedral spire, is fractured into extended planes which are
reminiscent of Marin or Feininger.  But even so, for me, somehow the whole
composition still manages to capture a feel for that place at that period of time, which
has a ring of truth to it.

     Giclee fine-art prints of this painting are available.