Green Field

Leon Goldin (American, 1923–2009)
Green Field, 1962
Oil on canvas
10 × 12 in.

Goldin's work is in the collections of the National Gallery of Art, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Brooklyn Museum, and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Fulbright Scholarship, and the Prix de Rome. He chaired the painting department at Columbia University from 1964 to 1992. This painting comes from the collection of Emily Mason and Wolf Kahn.

A green field — ten by twelve inches of landscape reduced to color and gesture. Goldin painted thick, loaded surfaces. The green here isn't one green. It's six or seven greens worked into each other wet-on-wet. A small painting that carries the weight of the New York School in every brushstroke.