Thomas Chimes, Waterfall, 1980

Philadelphia-based artist Thomas Chimes (b. 1924) is well known for working in a variety of styles and formats, ranging from small to large and from finely tooled early works in metal to oil paintings on wood and canvas. Waterfall is an important painting in a long career whose intellectual roots lie in nineteenth-century Symbolist aesthetics and their twentieth-century heir, Surrealism.

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