Description
With A Vision of the Past, E Irving Couse turns the work’s named subject into a balanced and sustained visual experience. A considered distribution of form and space keeps the subject legible while inviting a slower reading of the complete image.
E Irving Couse uses changes in light, color, and definition to establish the work’s mood and guide attention. This interplay of dominant shapes and restrained passages allows the image to remain clear without flattening its atmosphere. The result is an image whose mood and structure become richer as the viewer notices the connections between its larger and smaller passages.
The hand-painted process translates the composition into a physical arrangement of color, texture, and layered paint. The result combines the accessibility of a reproduction with the texture and individual character expected from a traditionally painted canvas.



