I did three paintings of sugar maples. All three are here – keep scrolling down to see them. The first, Sugar Maple Hill, (below) is an early transparent watercolor that I painted from memory remembering my days at school in New England. It sold immediately from a Philadelphia Gallery to a Philadelphia Collector.
This second Sugar Maple Hill (below) was painted and given to a friend who was always there for me – in good times and in bad – and who loved this transparent watercolor.
This third painting I called simply Sugar Maples (below). It, too, I painted from memory, and it also sold
the very first time it was displayed here in Pennsylvania. When I compare the three paintings, brushstrokes get looser with each new rendering. Painting Orpheus Revels sets in three days makes one deliver paint to canvas fast and I did Revels for years at about the same time I was painting the latter two Sugar Maples. Hooray for Orpheus! Hooray for loose, fun brushstrokes.
