Window in Wiscasset 1946

Stow Wengenroth made this lithograph, “Window in Wiscasset,” with crayon on stone. Imagine him, poised with his crayon, creating an image, not from life, but a view *of* life. He's looking out a window, capturing a building across the way. You see the building through the window, which is partially covered by a curtain. I can just feel him, lightly shading in all the tones, building up this scene. It looks so real. All the details on the building facade, balustrades, the window frames, and those sheer curtains that frame everything. The scene is bathed in light, and Wengenroth has captured the scene’s quiet mood so well. I imagine Wengenroth sitting there, thinking about what it means to look through a window, not at a subject, but at another building. It's like, he's not just showing us a place, but also his own act of seeing. And then we get to see it too. Like looking over his shoulder as he is making it.