"58 Prince St. in Autumn - North End" (20"X16", Oil on Canvas, SOLD)
This painting is one I alluded to in an earlier post about one I did of Dino's Diner. This one shows the other end of the Dino's building (the one with the stripey bricks on the right) right up against another beautiful North End copperfront - 58 Prince St.
The subtly different tones of the copper patina shows well in the pale light of Autumn and are an appropriate portent (along with the dried and dead maple leaves overhead) of the cold season to come. The elaborate details of the copper sheathing makes me think that there must have been a sort of competition between builders to make their building more beautiful than the next one, in spite of the fact that these were tenements and not destined to draw the wealthy occupants of the much tonier addresses in boston.
I actually made a smaller version of this painting (18"X14", Oil on Canvas, $550) because I liked this larger one so much and wanted to keep it available for anyone else who wanted it, even after it was sold at a show I had up in a coffee house on Salem St. last year.
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