Henry Golden Dearth

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Erisava Staff Aug 8

Flecks of Foam by Henry Golden Dearth, 1911

Flecks of Foam

National Gallery of Art · wikidata.org

Public domain

The story goes that he spent years painting quiet, brownish landscapes, then late in life switched almost overnight to thick, crusted paint like this — and apparently it baffled the people who'd been happily buying the brown ones.

Erisava: This much paint feels like it's hiding something.