"View from the Back" is an oil painting on canvas in a simple wooden frame, measuring 64" by 50".  The artist, Frederic Kellogg, is a retired EPA lawyer who now divides his time between Thomaston ME and Washington D.C.  His artwork draws from both locales, with cityscapes and views of coastal Maine.  This painting is an urban outlook under an intriguing cloudscape.

From Frederic Kellogg's artistic statement:  "I grew up very much under the influence of two 20th century American realists, Andrew Wyeth and Edward Hopper. Wyeth was a friend of my father’s, who was himself an accomplished watercolorist, and the fluid early Wyeth watercolors had a profound influence on me. For years I tried to emulate that technique, until I realized that I was incapable of it. Meanwhile, the mood and atmosphere of Hopper’s work became increasingly resonant with me, in part because I have much more of an urban background, having grown up in Cambridge and Boston. Both Wyeth and Hopper offered what I felt was lacking in abstract and experimental art, a strong element of content and narrative. I often wonder what Hopper would be doing if he were painting today". Read more from his artistic statement here. 

Mr. Kellogg's works have been exhibited at The Copley Society in Boston, the Q Street Gallery in Washington D.C. and the Nan Mulford Gallery in Rockport, ME.  His work is included in the the permanent collections of The Farnsworth Museum in Rockland ME and The Portland (ME) Museum of Art.