Ink Black Rock

“Ink Black Rock” is based on the inset story in Willa Cather’s “The Professor’s House.”  This painting was recently at the National Willa Cather Center in Red Cloud, NB.  Now it was accepted into the National Oil and Acrylic Painters Society (NOAPS) Associate Online Exhibition.  Cather’s character looks up to see how the sun fell behind the mesa early in the afternoon.  In her words “the sunset color streamed up from behind it.  Then the mesa was like one great ink-black rock.”

See it among the other paintings at the NOAPS 2021 online exhibition here.  The painting is 20″ high and is shown in a square here so you may only see the black until you click on it.