Nasty Weather
Jane Wilson American
Not on view
Wilson moved to New York from her native Iowa in 1949 with her husband, the critic, composer, and photographer John Gruen (1926–2016), whom she met while studying at the University of Iowa. The couple quickly fell in with the city’s bohemian artistic circles, particularly that of the Abstract Expressionists who frequented Greenwich Village’s Cedar Tavern. By the mid-1950s, however, the artist left abstraction more or less behind in favor of landscapes based on close observation. As with so many of Wilson’s paintings of the past few decades, Nasty Weather has a characteristically low horizon line, all the better to depict the changeable sky over the marshes and potato fields of her beloved Eastern Long Island.
This image cannot be enlarged, viewed at full screen, or downloaded.
