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Late Afternoon @ Pleasant Valley Park.  Basking Ridge, NJ.  7 July 2011.

Collage: "Good Egg, Swell Fellow" (2010-2011)

CHRISTIAN MONTONE 

Collage: "GOOD EGG / SWELL FELLOW" (18 x 24")

2010 - 2011

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The Way Of All Flesh.  7 July 2011.

Archive: Times Square Bus Drawings (2005)

CHRISTIAN MONTONE

Drawings: "Vintage Times Square Downtown Bus" #1 & #2. (2005)

Approx. size:  8 x 10 inches each.  Water soluble crayon and ink on board.

I rarely ever take NYC buses, so when I happen upon them in vintage photos, 

I'm much more bemused by them than I am, say, photos of the subway.  

I'm not sure why I didn't do more drawings involving buses in the '90s, 

but I may have to do some soon.  The varied shapes and colors of the buses

 (especially those of the 1940s and 1950s) always interested me for what seems like a 

lack of overall fleet uniformity and make for really solid subject matter.

God Lighting

The Living Moment.  

Pleasant Valley Park.  Basking Ridge, NJ.

Archive: "72nd & B'way" (1998)

 CHRISTIAN MONTONE

"72nd & B'way" (1998)

Diptych: 2 Panels, each approx. 11 x 17 inches.

Water soluble crayon on collaged paper on board.

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Created in the downstairs studio in Brooklyn shortly after spending a chilly Saturday doing reportage sketches alone, seated upon a bench at the triangle park which sits at the juncture of 72nd street and Broadway (near the Ansonia and the 1-2-3-9 Subway).  I recall being bundled in a coat with my sketchbook and backpack on my lap while my Sony Discman (remember those?) auto-repeated Mono's "Life In Mono" CD.  I can't look at this piece without hearing that particular album and feeling just a fraction of the chill brought in by the wind off the (not so far away) Hudson River.

Instagrams: Early Evening In The Park

Three phases of a late afternoon / early evening walk through Pleasant Valley Park.  5 July 2011.