The New American Tourist
Catalogue No. 671
Artist's CR 612
2005
Kinkell
Oil on canvas
36 x 32 inches / 91 x 81 cm
Collection: Private collection
The glaring flashes of explosions, the damage they create, the lights of the city still blazing , all reflected in the still water of the Euphrates, give the scene a terrible beauty. Camera in hand, the US Army photographer contemplates the ruins of palaces in the Cradle of Civilisation… The half-tone treatment of the figure gives the image the urgent authority of news photography.
'Artist's Notes on War Paintings', Gerald Laing, unpublished manuscript, 2004