Green

Evening Green

Evening Green

Sure we know it’s chlorophyll, but it certainly makes the world seem beautiful on an evening like this.  Green is a powerful color in English literature, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, the Green Man, Robin Hood and other myths mentioned by Frazer in The Golden Bough.

We feel our own sap run at the sight of this hue, one of the hardest of all to paint.  Pissarro stands out as able to bring the smell of green to a gallery room, Corot, in his small paper paintings, Lennart Anderson’s Vermont paintings, and the under-appreciated Marjorie Portnow, but it is a rare artist who can reach to the note, the perfect moisture of color and sustain it throughout.