After living for a short time in Manhattan, Mr. Still, in 1961, moved to Westminster, Md., where he continued to paint bold, dramatically colored, textured canvases evoking stone precipices, jagged mountain ridges and thundering cascades.
Mrs. Leitner, Mr. Dean and Mr. Dorman went out back and watched helplessly as water poured over a rock precipice and then over a four-foot stone retaining wall behind the house.
I tiptoe to the edge and, lying down flat, my hands clutching the cliff's rough stone, I peer over the precipice to see something that would steal the sleep from the most heat-tired of eyes.
The early 1970s are captured through the four characters in the Flint Stones series, who are again on the precipice.
Icicles were hanging from the mountainside, and plaques around every hairpin turn recalled those fellow travelers, most of them soldiers, who had "left for their heavenly abode" after plunging over the precipice inches from the loose stones that made up the road.
Standing there, he sprinkled the dirt from his family's plot and tossed the stones from Jerusalem, which his sister had given him, over the precipice.
The cascade is an impressive Baroque structure of masonry and stone, a series of steps, runways and gargoyles that lead the water down a precipice into a pond where it finally flows into the Seine.
The babies are obsessively climbing up and down the stone staircase, pausing only to contemplate a spirited hurl off the many concrete precipices.
And now, the present precipice.
