Painting Oil on Canvas by Brian Sindler: Evening, Jefferson, Framed

A pink sky settles over a dark river, and a low bridge holds the two apart.

Evening, Jefferson is a framed painting by Brian Sindler, in oil on canvas, made around 2017. Painting at dusk has long appealed to landscape painters because the light changes minute by minute, forcing quick, decisive brushwork. Here a wide mauve-pink sky fills most of the canvas, streaked with soft clouds. Below, dark masses of trees frame a river crossed by a long, low bridge, with small lights glimmering on the far bank and pale towers rising at right. Faint reflections trail across the water. It is 14 inches wide and 11 high.

The day is over, and nobody seems sorry about it.