Image: Lincoln Glenn, New York
As part of Lincoln Glenn’s ongoing ‘In The Spotlight’ series, Eli Sterngass highlights ‘Small Wind Disturbing a Bonfire’ (1949) by Bradley Walker Tomlin (1899–1953), an oil painting measuring 23 x 44 inches.
The featured work is titled ‘Small Wind Disturbing a Bonfire,’ was made in 1949, and is identified as an oil-on-canvas painting.
The essay situates Tomlin within the history of Abstract Expressionism and the New York School, emphasizing the delicacy, restraint and carefully measured rhythms of his abstraction.
The spotlight also discusses the painting’s provenance through sculptor Herbert Ferber and its connection to Paul Auster’s poem ‘Search for a Definition (On Seeing a Painting by Bradley Walker Tomlin).’
