The Golden Age

This is an acrylic and oil pastel painting on gallery-wrapped canvas, it's 30 inches tall by 30 inches wide. The last photo on the listing is the color palette of the main colors in this painting in hopes of eliminating color discrepancies on screen.  Collection: The Infrastructure Series Meaning:   This series explores the fundamentals of my work, which focuses on depth, texture, composition and colors that bring it all together. I struggle with perfectionism and adding layer upon layer to make a compelling story, but I am finding that the most compelling story are the “bones” that make up each and every painting I make.   This painting is inspired by the Golden Age of American architecture. Buildings like the Fisher Building, The Masonic Temple and more were built during this period after architects in Chicago pioneered steel framed construction. Beginning in the early 1880s, architectural pioneers of the Chicago School explored steel-frame construction and, in the 1890s, the use of