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VERSO
Signed, titled, dated, and “#2498”

Describing this painting the artist wrote, “I painted this house outside Petersburg, Alaska in a driving rain so intense that my normally reliable umbrella was useless. In the end, I was hunkered on the ground (with the tide rising) holding my poncho over myself and my canvas, and painting with my free hand. Paul Mullally, Albert Handell, and my Nancy, were out there struggling too – and no one wanted to be the first to chicken out and quit. Such is the mentality of the hard-core landscape painter. I was amazed to see, when I got to a dry calm place, that I had actually captured the drenching wetness of the day with the edges I used in the trees and beyond. I have no clear memory, however, of anything at the time I painted them, expect wanting to get out of the miserable rain.”

LITERATURE
Richard Schmid, Alla Prima: Everything I Know About Painting, Stove Prairie Press, 1999, p. 100, illustrated
Richard Schmid, The Landscapes, Stove Prairie Press, 2009, p. 178, illustrated

Condition ReportSurface is in excellent condition. No signs of restoration.

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