Work on Paper by Mark Westervelt: First Two

Pale figure rises from a gray lake while a dark one waits at the edge.

This work on paper is by First Two, and is ca. 2014. It is paint on paper. Mark Westervelt is an American painter trained at the Kansas City Art Institute and the University of Chicago, whose work has come to include a variety of mediums over his career. Simply put, a cut figure in cream and gray stands upright against a rose-brown ground streaked with red lines. A gray band fills the lower half, with a dark striped figure at right and a dark scrubby mound at lower left. It is 10 inches wide and 10 high.

Standing very still, and clearly in no rush.