Painting on Paper by George Colin: Still Life in Green, Framed

A vase of flowers, drawn mostly by taking things away.

Still Life in Green is a framed painting on paper by George Colin, made about 1980. It is scratched oil pastel on paper. Artists have long turned to still life to work out color and line in private, and such small pictures were made to be lived with at home. Here pale blossoms and a slender vase show as scratched outlines in a wash of soft aqua. A smear of plum sits under the base. A wide white mat and wood frame surround it. Twenty-nine and a half inches high and twenty-three wide.

Green has rarely been asked to do so much so quietly.