April Bloom by Alfred Currier

Oil on canvas — impasto. Currier's signature subject: the Skagit Valley tulip fields. Cadmium red blooms occupy the lower two-thirds; a yellow stripe divides the field where small figures work; a white farmhouse and dark treeline stand before snow-patched mountains and a cerulean sky. Color bands are structural — each temperature change defines a plane. His most collected subject at the scale collectors buy. Oil on canvas. $7,500. International shipping available.