Painting by Brian Sindler: Framed; Mid Day Colorado

Noon, one small cloud, and nothing else on the schedule.

Mid Day Colorado is a framed painting by Brian Sindler, ca. 2016, in acrylic on canvas. Landscape painting has long been made to bring wide open country indoors, for people who want a view on the wall, and this one takes the long view. Sun-baked tan ground rolls toward a low horizon. Dark, russet scrub bunches across the foreground, its shadows flattened by a high sun. Above it, a lavender-grey sky takes up nearly half of the canvas, with little to disturb it. A slim silver-toned frame surrounds the work. Forty-eight inches wide and 36 high.

Quite a lot of quiet for one wall.