Size: 48" x 58"

This oil painting by Leverett artist William Rathbun features a Quabbin landscape. The painting is done in an impressionistic style. Rathbun likes to make images and objects that express his inner feelings about his life and surroundings. His work employs traditional techniques, classical design and contemporary ideas and he uses conventional and diverse materials to achieve his results.

This painting, from 1987, is indicative of his style of work in the 1980s, when he created large, literal oil paintings and mystical, illusive abstract oils that refer to the primordial New England landscape.