Urban Blues consists of pastel works on paper completed in 2019 and early 2020. The city at night was the initial theme, the pieces expanded to embrace all that blue is for Geoff.
Urban Blues
Urban Blues
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About this collection
“My father’s formal uniforms were his blues.
Yankees wore blue.
Lightnin Hopkins and Muddy Waters sang the blues.
Eric Clapton and John Mayall played the blues.
Elvis Presley danced in blue suede shoes.
Michigan is maize and blue.
Giotto’s heaven was blue.
The Pacific Ocean is blue.
There is Chagall blue,
Starry Night blue,
and Picasso’s blue period.
There are November, 2016 blues
and Hill Street blues.
Miles Davis was kind of blue.
Les Bleus won the 2018 World Cup.
There is Mary blue, Navy blue,
Prussian blue, Sky blue,
Baby blue, Dodger blue, Titian blue,
And blue blood.There is blue grass. There is a Blue Nile,
and there are abandoned, homeless, lonely, dark alley, winter night, big city blues.
Earth is a blue planet.”