Line & Shape #4 by James Edward Scherbarth, Framed

A coral fan opens at the right, and a teal cloud drifts across a deep red ground beside it.

Line & Shape #4, framed, is oil and cold wax on paper by James Edward Scherbarth (1949-2021), signed and titled en verso. Working in oil with cold wax medium, a painter can drag a comb or stylus through the paint to leave raised ridges. Fine vertical streaks run down through a dark plum and red ground. A cluster of blue-green strokes spreads across the upper left, while ribbed coral marks curve up the right edge like a palm frond. It is 11 inches wide and 14 high, the image 5.5 by 8.5.

Somewhere between a reef and a garden.