George Taylor - 2 Residences c. 1936

Meyer Goldbaum made 'George Taylor - 2 Residences' with watercolor and graphite on paper. I imagine Goldbaum perched over this drawing, meticulously mapping out the George Taylor property, probably in 1890. The whole layout is so precise. Look at the gardens with their little circular motifs, like tiny whirlpools of green. And then there’s that statue! Someone standing in front of it must have felt like they were in a play. I feel the artist taking joy in delineating the edges of things, the borders of flowerbeds, the crisp lines of the buildings. There’s a lot of green, but there is some orange that adds another layer to the work. It reminds me of how much pleasure there is to be had in the sheer act of looking and drawing and recording. It’s like Goldbaum is saying, "Here is a world, and I’m going to capture it, piece by piece, with my pen." And the way that the buildings sit parallel to one another! Artists are always playing off each other, you know, riffing on ideas and styles. And it makes you realize that art is never really done, it just keeps evolving.