Bucks County
Artist
Ray Lewis
(American)
Date1982
MediumAcrylic on canvas
Dimensions66 × 71 in. (167.6 × 180.3 cm)
ClassificationsPainting
Object numberUAC2772
DescriptionBucks County is an abstract work by painter Ray Lewis, who was active in the late seventies and early eighties. The piece evokes the idea of a landscape in spite of its abstraction. The row of circles lining the bottom of the work appear as a nearby landscape with the blue field like a lake. Behind them, a large pink suggestion of a sun rises only to be met with the curving blue line above the horizon line. The very top of the painting has brown strokes feathered over it like wispy sun-drenched clouds.In the abstracted design there is a hint of the 80s aesthetic, bright pops of color and a paper-cup-like crayon line, in the swooping blue streak across the middle of the canvas, and the pure line border of some of the shapes gives it a stained glass appearance in its depiction of the abstracted scene.
Written by Alex Heath
