Man Ray

Ed Willis Barnett

1964

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This image is created with black ink on cream paper. Train tracks stretch from the foreground to the background of the composition, with a few small buildings in the foreground at the left and right of the image. Only a few trains can be seen in front of the train station building, which is pictured at the center left of the image with two towers and a great dome. The sky is clear.
This painting represents a view of a mill from across a stream. A small group of trees is in the left foreground, while a bridge leads from the right edge across the stream and over a small waterfall to the mill itself, which consists of a small building with a waterwheel. To the right of the mill is a reddish hillside dotted with trees.
The center of the work is a mix of black and orange brushstrokes, a piece of red-painted newspaper, and a green and black-painted piece of paper that has been adhered to the paper. On both sides of the black center are areas of white with some hints of light blue paint on the right. There is a large piece of newspaper painted lavender in the lower right part of the paper and a blue-green triangle of cut newspaper on the left-hand side. The upper half of the paper has several rectangles of color, including areas of pink, black, white, orange, and blue.
Oakleigh, Roy Thigpen, photograph