Landscape image. Grass in the lower 4/5ths, a cloudy sky at the top. There is a white building at left edge, the building has a narrow window in it.One of a complete set of four. Numbered 14/20, signed in lower right.

Stephen Duren attended the San Francisco Art Institute in the 1970s, and always favored working outside, directly from nature. During these periods of pleinair painting, he absorbed countless textures and patterns from the landscape, including that particular quality of light that is unique to California. This visual vocabulary became the foundation for his painting, moving from realism to abstraction. He was inspired by many European artists from the 1800s, including Constable, Corot, Corbet, Sisley, Van Gogh and Monet.