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This ships from Round Lake Beach, Illinois. A suburb outside of Chicago. I use UPS and sometimes US Post.
This is named St. Mark's Place, and it was painted in 1995. It’s watercolor on paper, 9x11 inches. I was making a lot of quick watercolor studies like this from photos that I took while living in New York, especially in the East Village. This one captures a street corner or café scene with a few loosely gathered figures—people deep in conversation or caught in a passing moment.
The figures are simplified into blocks of color, mostly blues, greens, and warm yellows. The setting suggests a background of storefronts or apartment windows, but it’s abstracted into a pattern of flat shapes and negative space. I wasn’t trying to capture an exact likeness—this was more about gesture, rhythm, and atmosphere.
This painting leans heavily toward stylization. The anatomy is reduced to essential forms. Hands, faces, and clothing are all broken into color planes. There’s just enough suggestion of body language to let you read into it. The colors are non-local—I picked them more for contrast and mood than realism.
The composition is asymmetrical, with the group pushed to the right and a bold window shape holding the middle space. The deep green coat on the left figure draws your attention and anchors the composition. I was playing with how to balance color masses and build a believable moment out of abstraction.
I’ve always been drawn to ordinary city scenes, especially when they’re quiet and a little ambiguous. This one is about human connection, even if it’s unclear what the story is. It’s a memory, a fragment, a feeling more than a narrative.
Details
Title: St. Marks Place
Medium: Watercolor on paper
Size: 9 x 11 inches
Year: 1995
Condition: Excellent, unframed
Style: Stylized, with non-local color
Ships flat, well protected
FREE SHIPPING
Shipping takes 3-4 Weeks
This ships from Round Lake Beach, Illinois. A suburb outside of Chicago. I use UPS and sometimes US Post.
This is named St. Mark's Place, and it was painted in 1995. It’s watercolor on paper, 9x11 inches. I was making a lot of quick watercolor studies like this from photos that I took while living in New York, especially in the East Village. This one captures a street corner or café scene with a few loosely gathered figures—people deep in conversation or caught in a passing moment.
The figures are simplified into blocks of color, mostly blues, greens, and warm yellows. The setting suggests a background of storefronts or apartment windows, but it’s abstracted into a pattern of flat shapes and negative space. I wasn’t trying to capture an exact likeness—this was more about gesture, rhythm, and atmosphere.
This painting leans heavily toward stylization. The anatomy is reduced to essential forms. Hands, faces, and clothing are all broken into color planes. There’s just enough suggestion of body language to let you read into it. The colors are non-local—I picked them more for contrast and mood than realism.
The composition is asymmetrical, with the group pushed to the right and a bold window shape holding the middle space. The deep green coat on the left figure draws your attention and anchors the composition. I was playing with how to balance color masses and build a believable moment out of abstraction.
I’ve always been drawn to ordinary city scenes, especially when they’re quiet and a little ambiguous. This one is about human connection, even if it’s unclear what the story is. It’s a memory, a fragment, a feeling more than a narrative.
Details
Title: St. Marks Place
Medium: Watercolor on paper
Size: 9 x 11 inches
Year: 1995
Condition: Excellent, unframed
Style: Stylized, with non-local color
Ships flat, well protected
