Oil on burlap, 17.5 x 14.5"
1963
This painting is another experiment in space and perspective, painted around the same time as "River." Here, I was trying to create a flat, frieze-like space that did not recede behind the picture plane but pushed out in front of it, rather in the manner of some Impressionist painters. Technically, "Landscape" is also very different from "River" in that "Landscape" is thickly (and rather laboriously) painted with heavy impasto, a technique I was just moving away from. By comparison, the technique in "River" is the direction I was heading. The paint is much "juicier," thinned with lindseed oil and applied with rapid brush strokes.
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