Watercolor on paper, 1977. 560x735 mm; 22x29 inches. Signed in pencil, lower right.
Provenance: Meredith Long Contemporary, New York; Lusenhop Fine Art, Chicago; Aaron Payne Fine Art, New Mexico and New York; private collection, with the labels on the frame back.
Boston artist Richard Yarde is known for his bold, large watercolors whose imagery reflects memories of his youth. His paintings are found in many museum collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, the Studio Museum in Harlem, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. Yarde is a Professor of Art at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
