Bright Light at Russell's Corners
Smithsonian American Art Museum

Bright Light at Russell's Corners

George Ault, born Cleveland, OH 1891-died Woodstock, NY 1948 · 1946

oil on canvas
Smithsonian American Art Museum
CC0 — Public Domain
Smithsonian American Art Museum

The radiant light at Russell’s Corners forms the center of the mysterious world Ault painted there. His wife Louise chose a quotation from the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche to describe her husband: “Unless there be chaos within, no dancing star is born.”

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