Original 20 x 10 Oil on Canvas
Signed Certificate of Authenticity
Hand framed in reclaimed wood
Ready to hang
Painted February 2020
This scene sat in my sketchbook for almost a year before it finally made it onto canvas. It was a view I saw all the time on my drive to work — a stretch of highway where the road bends away, disappears around a curve and heads off toward the horizon.
There was often an Amish gentleman walking along the roadside, with the trees dropping their leaves overhead and Amish homes sitting further back in the landscape. That combination of the long road, the figure, the houses and those late-season shadows kept sticking in my head until I finally painted it.
This came from one of my stronger Fauvist periods, and I pushed the color hard. The road is full of blue, turquoise and violet, with long dark shadows cutting across it, while the trees throw out orange and coral leaves against an exaggerated blue-gray sky. The barns and houses in the distance are simplified into strong blocks of warm color.
The perspective does a lot of the work in this painting. The fences, road edges and shadows all pull you toward that bend, while the lone figure gives the whole thing a sense of scale. It’s still one of my favorites from that period because it feels like the scene without trying to behave too much.
Want a print instead? You can find prints of this piece here: The Long Shadows of Fall.
Original 20 x 10 Oil on Canvas
Signed Certificate of Authenticity
Hand framed in reclaimed wood
Ready to hang
Painted February 2020
This scene sat in my sketchbook for almost a year before it finally made it onto canvas. It was a view I saw all the time on my drive to work — a stretch of highway where the road bends away, disappears around a curve and heads off toward the horizon.
There was often an Amish gentleman walking along the roadside, with the trees dropping their leaves overhead and Amish homes sitting further back in the landscape. That combination of the long road, the figure, the houses and those late-season shadows kept sticking in my head until I finally painted it.
This came from one of my stronger Fauvist periods, and I pushed the color hard. The road is full of blue, turquoise and violet, with long dark shadows cutting across it, while the trees throw out orange and coral leaves against an exaggerated blue-gray sky. The barns and houses in the distance are simplified into strong blocks of warm color.
The perspective does a lot of the work in this painting. The fences, road edges and shadows all pull you toward that bend, while the lone figure gives the whole thing a sense of scale. It’s still one of my favorites from that period because it feels like the scene without trying to behave too much.
Want a print instead? You can find prints of this piece here: The Long Shadows of Fall.