작품 상세

"I am fascinated by urban landscapes. For this painting I did a number of sketches in oil, standing along the river’s edge. It is amazing what the hand seems to see that I would never see in a photograph. In my studio, the sketch and the colors in it help me compose a painting that expresses the beauty of the day, the river, the shapes of the buildings and the awesome power of industrial activity. The smokestacks and pilings lend vertical strength to the painting and the flowing plumes from the smokestacks are white and black, perhaps good and bad, but beautiful. The red door on the barge reminds me that there are people here too." -H.V.M.