Original Painting: Vestige by James Edward Scherbarth

It could be a field. It could be the memory of one.

Vestige is an original painting by James Edward Scherbarth (1949-2021), oil and cold wax medium on cradle board, signed and dated on the reverse 2014/15. Abstract landscapes like this are painted less to record a place than to give a viewer the sense of one, in a room far from any horizon. Saturated blue and violet fill the upper part, over a thin seam of red. Below, a pitted yellow and cream surface spreads toward the viewer, cut by faint lines that converge upward. Twenty-four inches wide and thirty high.

Whatever was here has left a good impression.