A Warm Day on Chicago’s Lakefront

Great billowing clouds unfold in peach, lavender, and pale yellow above Chicago’s distant skyline, while electric blues sweep across the water below. Painted on location looking south from the city’s North Side lakefront, this small work on panel captures the expansive feeling of a warm day beside the lake. Vivid green trees gather along the curving shore, softening the buildings beyond. Layered color and lively, scratched marks give the scene its movement, preserving the pleasure of pausing by the water beneath an extraordinary sky.