Prairie Schooner, September 22nd, 2001
"All great artists are in love with subject matter ..." -- John Marin The shadow on the shed in the shape of the tree's great arm describes the homely affection I feel for the lexicon of reds layered on old barns. A ghost branch, the penumbra turns a trick of light, and I'm off listing beauty's dark properties: shutter atilt, tin roof scored and pocked, John Marin's Winter From My Back Window, Cliffside, New Jersey, 1929. Not a painting you'd associate with him, this jumble of roof lines bristling with snow, low buildings, wooden sides heaving with heat, cold, energy, his pallet of gray and ...
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