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December in Venice by Charles Polowetski

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December in Venice by Charles Polowetski

In 2008 this painting, loaned for exhibition at the Mills Mansion, Mt. Morris, was stolen and has yet to be recovered. The digital image shown here has been scanned from a photographic print. Although the location of this bridge is not known—there are some 400 in Venice—it evokes a pleasing range of saturated and pale colors, sunlit highlights and shadowy walkways. On the canal we see a gondolier and three red and white pali da casada (“poles of the family”) marking a distinct location. Everything a view might ask of Venice is here in Polowetski’s painting.

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