I grew up in NYC when abstract painting was at its height, and just at the time when Pop Art was taking over the gallery walls. I was a close friend of Herman Cherry for twenty five years until his death and I knew Bill DeKooning and many others still alive at that time, Richards Ruben, Reuben Kadish, and others. I was surrounded by abstraction but insisted on my plein air landscape approach, post- impressionist or whatever it is; just honest landscape painting. But even in the beginning, my expressionist tendency pushed the landscape into abstraction. These paintings, done over forty-five years, show that. I consider them “transitional paintings”. It all comes from the landscape for me. Even though I am working in non-objective abstraction most of the time now, I know the landscape is there at the heart of it. These are oil paintings on canvas, about 24 x 28 inches.
R.W. June, 2015
War
Bangladesh
The Pond
Reflection
Calligraphy
Vashon Wind
Passumpsic Valley
Basundara Bangladesh
Hills Alive
The Other Shore
Red Hills
Eggs over My Hamy
Yellow Cloud
Roaring Brook Pond
