Lunch in Naples

Michael Rosenthal (American, b. 1946, California)
Lunch in Naples
Watercolor on paper

Rosenthal studied at CalArts in the 1970s with John Baldessari, Allan Kaprow, and Nam June Paik. He ran Michael Rosenthal Contemporary Art gallery in San Francisco.

A lunch scene in Naples — the table, the food, the light of southern Italy captured in watercolor. Rosenthal paints travel the way he experiences it: through meals, through color, through the specific quality of light in a place he hasn't been before. Watercolor on paper, painted on location or shortly after. The medium is fast and the memory is fresh.