Into The Blue

Frances Gearhart

Gearhart loved portraying the majesty and the rugged beauty of the California landscape in her color block prints. Her imagery abounds with views of the coast, lakes, streams, valleys, deserts, and high peaks of the Sierra Nevada. What she mastered was that which is above the landscape, the sky. Her renditions of clouds whether they sweep, float, drift or scuttle across the sky are breathtaking. Gearhart dropped the heavy outlining in her skies and allowed color and negative space to shape her clouds. The puffy, cotton-like cumulus clouds in her color block print Into the Blue predict a mild weather day, a day perfect for flying among the clouds over the landscape.