John Reilly
oil on board
17.5 x 24 inches
Framed 22.5 x 28.75 inches
Signed lower left
#006823

A charming and atmospheric winter street scene oil painting depicting a northeastern town road curving gently into the distance, with the snow-covered neighborhood. The composition centers on several figures shoveling out the snow on a crisp winter day with much depth and detail, with subtle warm undertones from the reflected light. Capturing a cozy winter nostalgic scene, with a play of light by the roadside during a bright, snowy day. The piece is done in a highly impressionistic manner and is a wonderful display of Reilly's more impromptu style, with a rich palette and lively brushwork of whites, soft blues, warm pinks, red, oranges, blues, blacks, and yellows creating a sense of fine detail by a dynamic movement and texture through loose, expressive brushstrokes. Down by the street, elements like wooden utility poles with crossbars, power lines, and arched streetlamps with warm lights ground the scene in everyday suburbia. Tall evergreens on the left frame the composition, with their dark green pine branches, and contrast beautifully against the lighter, soft, rosy-purple glow and blues under a colorful late-afternoon sky. The painting is signed lower left and has the artist's stamp on verso. It comes housed in a distressed finished gold tone frame with linen liner and hanging wire on verso ready to be displayed.