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Ray Patrick
High Desert School, 2026
Oil on canvas
7 × 5 in. (17.8 × 12.7 cm)
Framed
From the artist's studio, 2026
$600 + $25 shipping in the US
Ray Patrick
Oil on canvas
7 × 5 in. (17.8 × 12.7 cm)
Framed
From the artist's studio, 2026
$600 + $25 shipping in the US
Weather building over a flat valley, with a row of low buildings and trees along the horizon — the school of the title reduced to two or three white marks.
Nine tenths sky. The horizon is pushed almost to the bottom edge and runs dead level, so the whole picture is cloud, and the buildings are a thin incident at the base rather than a subject.
Blues throughout — slate, cerulean and a deep navy in the cloud shadow, with white only where the light breaks through. The strip of land is green and olive, the one warm note a thin orange line in the foreground.
The cloud is scrubbed in overlapping diagonal strokes that keep their own edges, so the mass is built from facets rather than modelled. The buildings are three white dashes, put in last and not elaborated.
Oil on board. Thickly worked in the sky with visible ridges; the land is thin by comparison. The board's edges are painted white.
No signature visible within the painted area.