Doctor's Buggy c. 1936

Fred Weiss made this elegant Doctor's Buggy with pencil and watercolor on paper. I can imagine Fred, totally absorbed, meticulously rendering each spoke of the wheels. It’s like he’s not just drawing a buggy, but building it from scratch, one careful line at a time. He was active for so long that he would have seen many forms of painting come and go! Weiss’s clean, detailed style reminds me a little of Charles Sheeler, though his subject is less industrial, more…horse-powered. I wonder what he would think of Pop Art, of artists like Warhol silk-screening soup cans! There's a quiet dedication in Weiss's work, a different way of looking at and capturing the world. It's a reminder that every artist adds their unique voice to this long, ongoing conversation.