Painting Oil on Canvas by Brian Sindler: Racine Bridge Nocturne, Framed

Tall dark trees lean over a still river, and a bridge waits quietly in the distance.

Racine Bridge Nocturne is a framed painting by Brian Sindler, in oil on canvas, made around 2017. The nocturne, a painting of night or late twilight, was made famous by Whistler, and painters still use it to explore how little light a scene actually needs. Here a dense mass of trees rises at left against a grey-blue sky. A river runs straight back to a low bridge, where two small lights glow and cast faint reflections in the water. Muted greens and slate blues carry the whole picture. It is 14 inches wide and 11 high.

Dark enough for a nocturne, light enough to find the way home.