“The Garden Gate” was painted over several months in 1999. A large painting, at eight by ten feet, it was first hung in the lobby of the Sumitomo Corporation of America building at 600 3rd Avenue in New York. It was subsequently shown by the Durst Organization, where it hung on the massive west wall of the Condé Nast building lobby at 4 Times Square.
The image shows a dark bonfire-lit landscape with a foreground fence and a distant tree. Full of glowing brown and gold tones, it was inspired by a childhood memory of watching the garden burn at the end of the growing season.
