Signed 1961 Rheingold Warehouse Water Color on Paper Style of Wpa

Description

Dimensions are for the overall painting with border; the painting itself measures 25 inches wide x 15 inches high.

In … more Dimensions are for the overall painting with border; the painting itself measures 25 inches wide x 15 inches high.

In this work architecture interacts with its natural surrounding and portrays a functional structure. This movement also created office parks, apartment complexes, row housing, and small-scale commercial or industrial buildings. These plain structures show little in the way of ornament and few signs of human presence. Their facades tend toward the bland and featureless. Buildings are painted in minimally adorned landscapes, sometimes expressed as a wide swath of empty space. Here or there a tree may appear—or a bench, or a light pole, or even a person. In these unoccupied zones, shadows elongate and light reaches to create subtle gradations of color. A sense of stillness seems to hover over the paintings.
This style of panting is shorn of ornament, stripped of their full names and subtly altered to emphasize the way in which their low-lying, block-like forms absorb the brilliant sunlight. less