Collection II · Paintings · the walk

The World, Described

Twelve places a painter has never stood: the stars, the mountains, the sea, and one true thing about each.

One work at a time, hung large on a lit wall. Scroll, swipe or use the arrow keys to walk on.

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The Milky Way rises almost straight up from a dark high-desert ridge, its warm core glowing near the horizon, while a lone figure stands on the ridge looking up into it.
Rolling Iowa farmland at golden hour: fields of corn and soybeans in rows over gentle hills, a gravel road leading to a white farmhouse, red barn and silo in a windbreak of trees, under towering sunlit clouds.
A towering snow-and-rock peak catches gold morning light above a band of cloud wrapped around its waist, with dark conifer forest and a wildflower meadow below.
A tall breaking wave at golden hour, the low sun shining through its thin crest in glowing emerald, spray blowing back off the lip, white water churning below.
An enormous summer sky fills nearly the whole canvas, with towering sunlit cumulus clouds over a thin strip of golden plain and a single small tree.
The raised tail of a diving whale, water pouring from its edge, in a vast blue ocean under a dramatic sky where shafts of sunlight break through the clouds onto the sea.
Sunlight streams in long diagonal shafts through a cathedral of giant conifer trunks; ferns glow on the forest floor and a small figure on the path looks up into the light.
A tall two-tier waterfall drops through an amphitheater of mossy columnar basalt in an Oregon gorge, with a stone arch footbridge between the tiers, mist rising, and ferns in the foreground.
A storm shelf cloud over open prairie; wind sweeps the tall grass into rolling silver-gold waves like ocean swells, and one shaft of sunlight falls on the plain.
The last sliver of the sun sinks into the Gulf of Mexico with a thin green rim on its top edge, under a sky of violet, rose and tangerine; pelicans glide low, palms stand dark at the right, and the wet sand mirrors the sky.
A halved nautilus shell lies on deep blue cloth, its pearly chambers spiralling inward in perfect proportion, lit softly from the upper left.
A hiker on a winding trail through a subalpine meadow of purple lupine and red paintbrush, climbing toward a vast glaciated volcano under a deep blue sky.
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You have walked The World, Described.

Every work you passed can go home with you, framed and signed.

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