Painting Acrylic on Canvas by Brian Sindler: Amsterdam 3, Framed

Dusk settles over the water, and a single light comes on at the end of the pier.

Amsterdam 3 is a framed painting by Brian Sindler, acrylic on canvas, made around 2018. Small-format landscape painting has a long history of capturing a particular hour and light rather than every detail of a place. Here the view looks down across a dark, gray-blue expanse to a pale ribbon of water curving through the lower half. Scattered points of light glint along the shore and across the far plain. Smoke drifts from low buildings at the left, and one bright lamp glows on a jetty. It is 10 inches wide and 8 high.

A city reduced to its lights, which is how most people remember it anyway.