Curatorial Narrative Arthur Clifton Goodwin’s “Untitled” occupies a liminal space within the Impressionist canon, its exact creation date unknown but its visual language unmistakable. The artist’s employment of impasto brushwork imbues the landscape with a tactile quality, as if the very earth itself were rising to meet the viewer. This is no romanticized vista, however – rather, Goodwin’s palette of blues, greens, and yellows serves to heighten the sense of atmospheric tension, the whites and oranges punctuating the composition like flashes of illumination. It is a work that revels in its own materiality, the thick strokes of paint coalescing into a chromatic structure that is at once both abstract and deeply rooted in the natural world.When scaled up to 54×44, “Untitled” assumes an almost architectural presence, its spatial rhythm and depth taking on a palpable quality. The palette, now even more vivid and intense, begins to exert