Mountainscape by Dillon Hampden Carrington (1940s)

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A kaleidoscopic landscape with a panoramic view of the Catskill Mountains by DILLON HAMPDEN CARRINGTON (1916-1991), executed with a palette … more A kaleidoscopic landscape with a panoramic view of the Catskill Mountains by DILLON HAMPDEN CARRINGTON (1916-1991), executed with a palette knife in oil on Masonite. Cubist distortions transform the cloudy sky into a captivating expanse of Fata Morganas that pile on top of the actual peaks. The Catskills, a subrange of the Appalachians, bewitched the boyhood imagination of Washington Irving, the 19th-century American short-story writer, inspiring his famous gothic tales. Interestingly (and perhaps relatedly), Carrington was himself a noted bibliophile and specialized as a collector of supernatural lore. In a gilded, heavily-carved frame. less