Spring in Southern California by Granville Redmond 1931

This landscape of California in bloom was painted by Granville Redmond, but its exact date is unknown. Just imagine Redmond, out there with his easel, trying to capture that explosion of color and light! There’s a real looseness in the brushwork. You can almost feel him dabbing at the canvas, trying to get that perfect shade of poppy orange just right. I imagine he was out there trying to get it all down at once, you know? It must have been a joyful and frustrating experience. What I really like about it is how it pulls you into that space. It reminds me of other landscape painters like Van Gogh, who are trying to find their own ways of experiencing the world, their own way of rendering vision into something tactile and felt. Redmond is speaking the same language here. It's like a painting of seeing, feeling, breathing, and being.