Autumn by James Edward Scherbarth

A great black scribble races across the sheet like weather coming in.

Autumn is a work in hand colored graphite, oil and pencil on paper by James Edward Scherbarth (1949-2021), dated 9-10-2020, titled, dated and signed en verso. Gestural mark-making, where the speed of the hand is left visible, is a familiar language of abstract drawing. Dense, jagged graphite strokes sweep in a band from left to right. Below, a translucent ochre rectangle holds a small gray stone shape, and a pale oval floats at the upper left. Soft rose and gray washes lie underneath, with small red ticks along the bottom edge. It is 7 inches wide and 12 high.

Autumn, apparently, arrives in a hurry.