Greetings! 
It is very difficult to speak highly of one painting without inferring that the other works are less deserving, but this featured painting is where things get exciting.
When Bill first brought San Diego Metro With Early Morning Fog to the gallery, I literally stopped whatever it was that I was doing, and stared in silence for several minutes. I'm not smart enough to understand exactly what happened, but I'll try to explain my reaction. With this painting, Mr. Dubin had reached back 70 years to channel Millard Sheets, Harwood Steiger, even Emil Kosa Jr. Simultaneously, and without fully realizing it at the time, Mr. Dubin had just opened a door into a new, very fertile period of his own career.
From this moment on, we begin to see the effects of light and atmosphere on Mr. Dubin's urban subjects. Scroll down to the painting below, and try to tell me that you don't feel San Diego's thick morning air! This new element in his work developed slowly at first, just as a train struggles to leave the station. But as you'll see in subsequent emails, the exploration of light and atmosphere virtually explodes onto the paper, just as a train comes to move effortlessly under full steam.
None of us, not even the artist, have had a chance to see the entire body of work hung all together. We'll all be able to do so in exactly four weeks, when the show opens on March 12.
San Diego Metro with Early Morning Fog
Original watercolor
21 1/2 x 15"
6530 E. Tanque Verde #160
Tucson, AZ 85715 520-885-2157 borealisart@mac.comP.S. You may always catch up on previous emails in this series here. |
