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BY DIANA BIRD
Rappahannock News
Contributing Writer
Thomas B. Spande’s “Recent Paintings”, the April exhibition of 18 oils on panel, canvas and linen are especially appreciated not only because they are good, but also because Spande’s work has been on view in the last few years a few at a time and seldom. Already one handsome picture, “Morning in Maine”, has been purchased and taken away.
Five small oils on panels describe city scenes of over ^nd under passes - subdued images of urbanization, although they are devoid of people and most vehicles. They are studies of angles and curves lighted apparently at night. They express the hajdt realities of modem times.
Many of Spande’s paintings i suggest loneliness or singularity in a way that draws the viewer into the scene. They resonate with emotion.
Two of these, “The Student” and “Sarah” contain images of isolated women. “The Student” is working at night at her desk in a room painted lavender, lighted by a large desk lamp. Every aspect of this realistic work, while detailed at certain points - paneled shutters, a pilaster-supported arch leading out of the room, a picture on the wall of a path or road leading to the horizon - suggests a specific time and place only to a degree. An effect of Spande’s simplifications is to have you see the
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