New York from Brooklyn Heights 1930

R. Varin’s print of New York from Brooklyn Heights is a little hazy, like memory itself. Look at how the marks, etched or drawn, create this layered effect – it's like the image is built up from tiny observations. The color palette is muted, almost pastel, with soft blues, grays, and creams that blend together. The texture isn’t immediately obvious, but there is something there. See how the clouds are formed? It’s a subtle dance between precision and suggestion, realism and dreamy abstraction. The smokestack on the small boat is so perfect, while other details are a little softer around the edges. That contrast reminds me of how Fairfield Porter painted the everyday, finding beauty in the imperfect and the fleeting. Varin's print is the kind of thing that invites us to slow down, look closely, and appreciate the poetry of a moment, of a process, captured in ink.