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1. Art/Official

   Good — I've got the live record for The Sunset (BB-OGP-1994-010), oil on canvas, 26" x 20", OG Oil Paintings series, not yet catalogued. Where does this painting physically live right now — do you have it in front of you, or working from memory/photo? Does the title "The Sunset" feel literal to you, or is there irony/distance in it?

2. Artist

   This is an old photo that I have of the painting, not sure where it is now, was probably given away as a present to someone in the late 90s. The title the sunset is that the painting is of the backyard view where I was painting back then in the Sunset district of San Francisco

3. Art/Official

   Give me your blind first description — whatever comes to mind about this painting, from memory, before you look at the image again.

4. Artist

   This is a painting of the view from the backyard where is use to paint back in the day, it uses a colorful pallette

5. Artist

   [uploaded image: 1000021060.jpg]

6. Art/Official

   Vision observations: a view looking out from under a covered porch or deck structure, two vertical wooden posts framing the composition, dark overhang/roofline across the top, a wild billowing sky dominating the upper two-thirds, San Francisco rooflines below including a teal building and salmon-pink stucco, dense foliage in the lower half. Does the porch/overhang read as accurate to what was actually there?

7. Artist

   Well there was a bedroom that came out from the house, so I would painting from underneath it, so that protected from the rain when it happened

8. Art/Official

   Did you paint other pieces from that same spot under the bedroom overhang, or was this the one time you worked from there? How long were you working at this house in the Sunset District?

9. Artist

   This is where I made all the og oil paintings from 1994 to 1996, but there is now a shed in the backyard where the current studio is

10. Art/Official

    On the sky — does the vortex-sky pattern we've traced in the '93–96 oils feel true here, or does this sky feel like something else? On the buildings — was that palette accurate to the actual neighborhood, or did you push the color heavier than what was really there?

11. Artist

    I can't remember, but liked big skys like turner and constibale, the building in the neighborhood are quite bright, but I definitely embellished then with the color.

12. Art/Official

    Looking at it now, how do you feel about this painting — does it hold up, or feel dated? And do you know roughly when this photo was taken, and is it the only visual record left?

13. Artist

    I've always liked this painting, the colors came together even before reading georthe. For the oil paintings I didn't paint too many from the scene, but went on to paint a lot of water colors of scenes on my travels, you can check the SFAI watercolor painting.

14. Art/Official

    Give me your second description of the painting now — knowing everything we've talked about.

15. Artist

    Let's pull tge full SFAI record it's been catalogued. And I think this painting is more pivotal and we should go further

16. Artist

    https://bernardbolter.com/sfai