Busacca Gallery

This painting, by Keith Hill, is done in oil paint and alkyl resin varnish on canvas. In Manchester, Michigan there is a dam across the Raisin River that was constructed to drive the lumber mill used for processing the wood that went into making automobiles during the first quarter of the 20th century. The mill is now used as a shopping mall. But the dam remains and has created a haven of still water where algae floes and water lilies abound. The stillness and intensity of the landscape combine to create a mood of infinitude and respite. That is what was intended when painting this picture. When Hill signs his paintings, he tries to disguise the signature so that it becomes part of the scene, not a commercial tag. His signature on this painting is particularly well disguised and can be found in the upper right hand corner of the painting, and down about 6 inches.

Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_Lilies

Claude Monet found something of endless attraction in the humble water lily (Nympheas), enough to make around 250 paintings on this subject alone.



The paintings are on display at museums all over the world, including the Musée Marmottan Monet in Paris, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Saint Louis Art Museum, the Carnegie Museum of Art, and the Portland Art Museum. During the 1920s, the state of France built a pair of oval rooms at the Musée de l'Orangerie as a permanent home for eight water lily murals by Monet. The exhibit opened to the public on 16 May 1927, a few months after Monet's death. Sixty water lily paintings from around the world were assembled for a special exhibition at the Musée de l'Orangerie in 1999.