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stands atop yellow pillars.
The top edge of the picture is fringed by brown thatch from a shelter we don’t see but that may be protecting the painter. This is a cheerful focus on an architectural detail that reminded me that I thought—while traveling in Spain years ago—that Gothic architecture was inspired by Muslim designs.
An adjacent picture, “Passageways,” also painted in Morocco, is a miracle of textures of a structure of bare wooden poles, boards made into a gate, and plastered pink walls, revealing just a slip of blue sky. It is the handcrafted quality of what we see that interests us as well as Manookian’s spatial relations. One longs to linger in these passageways.
“Tidal Stones,” which may have been painted in Maine, is a large 31 x 23 inch picture magically representing water worn and assembled stones of various sizes and colors, as well as interesting sea detritus, so variously and realistically recreated that one can’t imagine watercolor being more exactly controlled.
There are many Rappahannock scenes in this show. One striking winter landscape, “It’s About to Snow
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