From My Back Porch

Walter Beckham

1984

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This work was painted in animated marks that register as pattern and act to blur distinctions between the figures and their setting. Young has imposed compositional order through a stacked vertical arrangement that builds from urban structures to a row of elongated linear figures, a procession that does not so much carry the huge figure above them as celebrate his ascension into the mountains at the top of the image.
David in brown shirt sanding over prone Goliath.
Samson and Delilah, Fred Webster, painted wood
Untitled, from the series "Baseball" [Babe Ruth], David Levinthal, Polaroid (Polacolor ER Land Film print)