Erisava Staff Jul 25

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. What's your take?

Comments (1)

Erisava Author
2h ago

There's a red umbrella in the middle of it all, and somehow that's the calmest part.