Sundown Sprinkler, Painterly Mountain Pasture

Pacific Northwest Landscapes · horizontal

A pasture of green and golden grass in the foreground leads back to a line of fencing, a small reddish shed and a sprinkler throwing a thin arc of water. Behind it, forested hills and layered blue mountains rise under a sky of orange, pink and violet clouds. The sun glows near the horizon between the peaks. The whole scene has a soft, swirled, painterly texture.

A collector wants this for the contrast between a warm orange-and-violet sunset sky and cool slate-blue mountains, with one small rural detail: a sprinkler arc catching the light in a green pasture. It reads as a calm end-of-day scene. The swirled, oil-paint-like texture softens it into something between a landscape photograph and a painting. Many sunset mountain pictures are all sky and peaks. This one has a fence, a small shed and a spray of water that give the eye a place to rest and a quiet bit of everyday life to notice.

Artwork by Omaste Witkowski.

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