Landscape 19th-20th century

Curator: Gauley's "Landscape" is a watercolor piece, a breezy ten by fourteen inches, and it whispers rather than shouts. I find it interesting that there is no date associated with this work. Editor: It’s quite dreamlike. The colors seem muted, like a memory fading at the edges. Almost an impressionist take, wouldn't you say? Curator: Well, perhaps...The pink-tinged horizon feels more like a symbolic representation of something idyllic. Pink often represents hope. I wonder if the artist had such feelings as he painted this work? Editor: Or maybe it was just a sunset! But I see what you mean about hope—there’s a feeling of longing woven into the washes, a sort of yearning for what’s beyond that distant hill. Curator: It all makes you wonder, doesn't it? What the landscape held for Gauley, what it means for us. Editor: Exactly. It’s a fragment, an emotion, a moment caught in time.