Original Painting: Solstice II by James Edward Scherbarth

Yellow at length, with blue held firmly to the top.

Solstice II is an original painting by James Edward Scherbarth (1949-2021), oil and cold wax medium on cradle board, signed and dated on the reverse 2014. Color-field abstractions like this are made for homes and galleries, where a single large hue can change the feeling of a room. A strip of deep blue crosses the top, slashed by lighter diagonal bands. The rest is a thick, stippled yellow, warmer toward the middle, with blue breaking through at lower right. Twenty-four inches wide and thirty high.

The longest day of the year, and it shows no sign of ending.