Painting Oil on Canvas by Brian Sindler: Maritime Museum Nocturne, Framed

Masts stand straight up in the dusk while the last light drains out of the sky.

Maritime Museum Nocturne is a framed oil painting on canvas by Brian Sindler, ca. 2017. A nocturne, a term Whistler famously borrowed from music for his night scenes, is a painting of evening or night that trades detail for mood. Here moored sailboats rest on dark water, their tall masts catching faint touches of light. A low far shore holds a few small glowing lights, and the sky moves from olive green to a dusky violet. A dark building edge appears at the right. Everything is painted in close, muted tones. It is 20 inches wide and 16 high.

Very little happens, and that is the whole point.