Sunset, Wednesday, 19 August 2009

Wednesday, August 19, 2009 at 09:08PM
BVD in Andy Warhol, Constable, Corot, Courbet, Flint the foxhound, Georgia O’Keeffe, John Singer Sargent, Kandinsky, Paul Cézanne, Salvador Dali, Sisley, Sunset Paintings, Sunsetology, Winslow Homer

Stony Point, Albemarle County, Va. Oil on paper, 16 x 20.

In the vast museum gallery of the woods, walking with Flint, the sun through cloud cover skylight, I see art in reverse – Courbets and Corots, Constables, Sisleys, Homers and Sargents before they became these things. They started here, somehow. Even the most visionary Cézannes, the O’Keeffes, Dalis, Kandinskys, Rothkos, Warhols, Hockneys: What a room ...

Flint stops to drink from a stream, in the museum cafeteria.

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