Wood Lawrence Gipe: Postcard From a Zeppelin

Biplanes out the window, a liner far below, and an airship's shadow on the clouds.

Postcard from a Zeppelin is an oil on panel by Lawrence Gipe (American, b. 1962), from 1995 to 1996. Gipe is known for paintings that draw on the imagery of early 20th-century industry and progress. Here the view is taken from inside a cabin, its window framing two biplanes above misty mountains. The rest opens to a dark fjord under heavy cloud, with a two-funneled steamer cutting across silver water. The long grey shape of the airship falls across the bright clouds at lower left. Seventy-two inches wide and 48 high.

Wish you were here. It was, in its way, the future.