painting box: 2014

From the pure yellow of the imagined sun, to the orange glow at the end of the day... colors of the sun.

Above: Yellow vinyl 45 of The Beatles "Good Day Sunshine" released June 1966. They wrote a few songs with titles referring to the sun in addition to Good Day Sunshine...Here Comes the Sun, I'll Follow the Sun, Sun King, and countless lyrics including sun and sunshine.

Above: Golden yellow paint like light streaming down the stairs becomes the focus for the room, and connects the different floors. Found here.

Above: Alex Katz "4 pm" 1959

Above: Anthony Caro sculpture

Above: Wall opening in India. Photographer unknown.

Above: Irving Penn photo, 1963, Vogue

Above: Great Gatsby linen covered book, designed by Aled Lewis. It was created recently, though it looks vintage.

Above: Table with ceramic tile top from the 1960's, designer unknown. I found it at the Collective 2 Design Fair NYC summer 2014, shown by Maison Gerard.

Above: Lucio Fontana "Concetto Spaziale" 1960 Galerie Karsten Greve

Above: Anish Kapoor, "Yellow" 1999, Installed at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, 2009.

Above: William Abranowicz photo of the television in the music room at Graceland, from the book "Elvis Then and Now", 2002.

Above: Fairfield Porter, "Lizzie at the Table", 1958

Above: Anna Ancher (1859-1935) "The Girl in the Kitchen" 1883-86. Hirschsprung Collection, Copenhagen

Above and below: Wes Anderson uses colors in a vivid way in every movie...saffron yellow is a strong element in most of them..."Moonrise Kingdom" above, and more examples below, from "The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou", "The Royal Tenenbaums", "The Darjeeling Limited", and "The Grand Budapest Hotel".

Above: Interior by Axel Vervoordt. The wood and leather glow in the golden light.

Above: Saul Leiter photo 1959

Above: I took this photo of part of an installation by Emily Mast at the Hammer Museum's show "Made in LA" summer 2014.

Below: Emily Mast working on the Hammer show, from a C magazine piece.

Above: Glen Lukens, Untitled Ceramic

Above: A vendor selling "sweet laddu", made of chickpea flour or wheat semolina, minced dough, ground coconut, ghee, cashews, raisins, cardamom, sugar and saffron for color as well as taste, though often it's just yellow food coloring.

Above: Lemons on our dining table, in a ceramic dish my husband made.

Above: Preserved lemons, coated in salt, from the new cookbook "Mourad New Moroccan" by Mourad Lahlou, chef of the Michelin starred San Francisco restaurant "Aziza".

Above: Lumps of Indian Yellow pigment in the Winsor & Newton archive, purportedly made from the urine of cows fed only mango leaves. In 1996 Winsor & Newton developed a synthetic mixture that reproduced the color and lightfast qualities of the original pigment. When Victoria Finlay, author of the book "Color", went to the location where Indian Yellow was believed to originate there was no evidence that this was ever the way the color was created, and further investigation yielded no other confirmation of the theory, so the origin of this color remains a mystery.

Above: Williamsburg paint makes a beautiful version of Indian Yellow.

Above: Helio Oiticica, "B-11 Box Bolide 09", 1964, Tate Collection

Above and below: Helio Oiticica, "Grande Nucleo", or "The Great Labyrinth" 1960-1966.

Above and below: Sculptures by Aneta Regel Deleu at Pangolin, London

Above: Turmeric

Above: Turmeric powder and saffron strands. Turmeric is used as an inexpensive dye to recreate costly saffron. The saffron robes of buddhist monks are dyed with turmeric. Saffron comes from Crocus Sativus. The thin crimson stigmas of the flowers need to be tugged out gently by hand, and the rest of the flowers are thrown away. The stigmas have to be tugged early in the day they bloom...by the afternoon they are less valuable and worthless the next day. These days saffron grows mostly in Iran, with some farms in Spain as well.

Above: Vintage French garden dining set I came across at an antique market in Nice. The patterns of rust look like the inside of the turmeric.

Above: Golden yellow will always call to mind the spines of National Geographic.

Above: Man carrying garlands of yellow marigolds at the flower market in Calcutta, India

Above: Wolfgang Laib, "Without Place, Without Time, Without Body", 2007.

Above: Barnett Newman, 1949

Above: Unknown

Above: Augustus Vincent Tack (1870-1949), "Evening" 1934-36.

Above: Aboriginal art found here.

Above: Jan Vermeer "The Music Lesson" 1662-65

Above: Found here.

Above: Milton Avery, "Interlude"

Above: Wolfgang Laib working on an installation using pollen collected from Hazelnut trees. Laib has been collecting pollen around his home in a small village in southern Germany since the mid 1990s.

Above: I took this photo recently of pollen produced by tiny pine cones on a tree in our neighborhood. When the pine cones are full of pollen it doesn't take much to knock it out...creating a yellow dust that we've collected...you can see the jar below.

Above: Wolfgang Laib's installation at MOMA summer 2013. His largest pollen installation to date, it measures 18' x 21'.

Above: Pierre Boncampain

Above: Photographer Aldo Cicelyn, Ventotene Island, Italy

Above: Joan Mitchell "Edouard" 1980

Above: Joan Mitchell

Above: During the Indian festival of Holi the celebration includes throwing masses of powdered paints.

Above: Christo and Jeanne-Claude "The Gates", Central Park, NYC, installed February, 2005.

Above: Uta Barth

Above: Fairfield Porter, "October Interior" 1963

Above: Window by Roy McMakin, Domestic Architecture, Manhattan Beach residence.

Above: Howard Hodgkin "Bombay Sunset" 1972-3

Above: Pierre Bonnard "Girl with Parrot", 1910

Above: Lichen on a branch, Wales, from a beautiful blog called loglike.

Above: Sheila Hicks textile piece

Above: Stanley Boxer, "Still Life in an Interior", 1960, 56.5" x 55.5"

Above: Fairfield Porter "Maine Interior"

Above: James Bishop, at David Zwirner. You can see the shape of a house faintly in the golden field.

Above: Esteban Vicente, "Early 1995"

Above: Photo taken at a crepe stall on the beach, Antibes.

Above: Luigi Ghirri photo.

Above and below: From the Museum of International Folk Art in Santa Fe. The museum houses Alexander Girard's collection of folk art...an inspired, surprising, and generally wonderful group of objects. The exhibition help to show the connections from one country to another, and the spirit of the installation is in keeping with the colorful pieces on display.