Barefoot at the Blue River, Boy on a Rocky Bank

Pacific Northwest Landscapes · horizontal

A young boy with short blond hair stands barefoot on a flat stone at the edge of a rocky riverbank, looking down at the ground or water. A wide blue river curves away to the left toward tree-covered banks and distant hazy hills under a cloudy blue sky. Slender pale-trunked trees and bright green shrubs and grasses fill the right side of the scene. The whole image has a vivid, sharply detailed, slightly painterly look.

A collector wants this piece for the small barefoot boy standing at the edge of a vivid blue river, because he gives an otherwise scenic landscape a human center and a quiet story. The foliage, stones and water are rendered in crisp, glowing, almost oil-paint-like detail. The result is a river scene that feels both nostalgic and intensely alive, not a generic blue-and-green landscape.

Artwork by Omaste Witkowski.

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