Painting of the Day, November 5, 2011

By Donna Poulton

Contemporary Utah artist George Handrahan paints the red rock of southern Utah and is well known for his regional farming scenes such as this scene from Liberty, Utah.  He depicted this composition from a vertiginous height so that the key element, the mountain casting the shadow, becomes the dominant unseen force. Handrahan notes, “It will soon envelop the farm and affect all within.  Slowly it will replace the warm afternoon light with winter’s defining cold darkness.”

Credit: Image courtesy of George Handrahan

George Handrahan, In the Shadow of the Mountain, 2007, oil on linen, 24 x 30 in.