Neon-lit textures have given way to dense, dusky landscapes, with tender lyrical passages at the heart of each piece.
That same sense of wonder characterizes a dusky 1835 landscape by William Turner of Oxford, among the mainly British watercolors purchased through the Sunny Crawford von Bülow Fund.
So is a charming pencil portrait of Seurat by Henri Edmond Cross, with a dusky Seurat crayon landscape, seemingly composed of fine black hairs, beside it.
Silhouettes of television aerials against a glowing orange and purple sky; yellow traffic lights on a nearly deserted avenue; a silvery subway train in the middle distance slipping through the dusky, blue-gray light; an industrial landscape at sunset: These and other beautiful images, photographed by Andrew Reed, resonate with the characters' lives.
The grounds are landscaped with dusky-green plants (no flowers, please), and the backyard holds a vegetable garden and a studio full of research materials that Ms. Oppewall used on films like "Catch Me if You Can," "Wonder Boys" and "The Bridges of Madison County".
As impossible as it sounds, Ms. Tipton's contributions in "No Time to Fly" are nearly fragrant, framing the dancing in such a way that Ms. Hay appears at times to be lost in a Maxfield Parrish landscape — if everything were removed but the dusky light.
"So the collection is a marriage of the two of them we're calling a 'modern western.' " That meant western riffs on the label's signature silhouettes — varsity-style jackets with studding detail, kimono jackets with a scurrying scorpion print and chiffon dresses in a cowpoke-appropriate plaid — in a desert-landscape-color palette heavy on cactus green, dusky pink and terra cotta orange.
dusky flycatcher (Alseonax adustus).
Jon Clark's lighting is dusky.
There Metcalf worked on various landscape themes, including the hazy, summery "Red Maple (No. 2)" (circa 1906), a spit of land jutting into water, seen from a bank adorned with a dusky red maple.
