A Belated Fourth of July

I had a wonderful Fourth of July. The police directed and redirected us so that a normal fifteen minute trip took an hour and a half. It was raining. We missed the parade and saw only the last three floats. Being the eternal optimist, I went out looking for photographic opportunity. Perhaps channeling Robert Frank's The Americans, a book indelibly burned into my brain, I took these photos.

Larry Rivers American-a

What better way to celebrate the fourth than with Larry Rivers? A quintessentially American painter who often painted historical themes. The current show at Tibor De Nagy has several sketches for the paintings, as a painter, it is always interesting to see how someone's process works.