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Railway Sunset, 1929

A rail line stretches horizontally along the bottom of the picture plane. A very flat band of mountain range rests like a foundation structure along that entire expanse of rail line. Above this are strips of cloud that could function as clapboarding, and above those are a painterly expanse of sky, ranging from yellow to a choppy bluie. The picture plane is, therefore, divided into horizontal bands, ranging from a thin near-black band at the base--"the earth"--accented by thin, silvery rail bands, somewhat like constructional girders, to a thick band--less dark and more green--that functions like a rusticated stone foundation wall. The heavier elements of sky--like the dark, thin cloud strups strips lie at the bottom of the sky, while the lighter, airier sky floats at the top. The vertical lookout tower and the signal pole pin the visual elements together into a unified whole. The red band above the mountain range that defines the sunset also divides the heavier "stone " section of the "building" from the lighter areas made from "wood." The elevation views of buildings tend to be balanced. Here there is a balance between dark vertical (built) elements on the left, and the light-and-dark horizontal elements of the clouds to the right. 

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