The View from the Air

Terry Teachout mentioned that he could not think of artists who used the vantage point of airplanes as inspiration for their art. I sent him a little note about Richard Diebenkorn (especially the Berkeley paintings of 1955 - not so much the Ocean Park paintings, for reasons I will get to later). Then I remembered what Wayne Thiebaud has been up to for the last ten years - scenes of the Sacramento River delta that can only be imagined from an airplane (the delta is just too flat to have any spectacular hill views that would yield these paintings). There is also a photographer, whose name escapes me right now, who shows at the Triangle Gallery in San Francisco. He takes some startlingly abstract-looking photographs from the air.

Anyway, this is the cause of my latest bout of insomnia, so I am gathering examples up for a post on painting from the air. If you know of any examples, please either comment or email me at EKeilholtz@aol.com. Thanks!