Palms At Night

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Ray Patrick

Palms At Night, 2026

Oil on canvas
40 × 30 in. (101.6 × 76.2 cm)
Unframed

From the artist's studio, 2026

2026.122.062

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Subject

Palms in dark silhouette against an entirely blue field, the crowns dense and the trunks dropping to the bottom edge.

Composition

A loose group of four at the left leaning slightly inward, two more at the right, and an open passage of bare blue between them. The crowns sit high and the lower half is almost empty.

Palette

One colour, worked throughout — cerulean and cobalt, lighter at the lower left, deeper at the top. The palms are a blue-black barely separable from the ground, and a bronze cast appears where one at the right catches the light.

Handling

The ground is laid in broad flat passes with incised vertical lines scored through it. The crowns are blocked in as solid masses and the fronds flicked outward from them; several trunks are drawn as single lines running the full height.

Medium and support

Oil. Flexible unstretched support, the paint thin enough that scoring and weave read through. No impasto.

Signature

No signature visible within the painted area.