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Here's an image from last summer -- a spot I fell in love with when we camped there 60 years ago and (as far as I'm concerned) perhaps the most perfect landscape on the continent. Which is kind of a problem for a landscape artist. In my city paintings, I can discover & share the beauty in some overlooked corner of the streetscape. In Yosemite, the whole world already knows the landscape is beautiful almost beyond description -- so what's a painter to do but try & copy what's already there?

Peter Salwen's light-filled urban landscapes are in collections across the U.S., Europe and South America. Salwen's paintings, he says "try to express the deep pleasure to be found in something as simple as sunlight on a wall or the ordinary traffic of people and machinery at city street corner. At heart they are simply thank-you notes to Nature for providing such an endless array of visual joys, most especially in New York City, which is of course Nature's noblest creation. "The city streets offer up an ever-shifting kaleidoscope of shapes, colors and impressions to the interested eye. Most of my paintings are an attempt to capture the sensations of one particular moment and somehow wrestle them onto the canvas where, with luck,...