Light and Shadows
Oil on canvas, 30 x 40”
Signed lower left
A New Yorker, Bruestle trained there and in Paris. He began making painting trips to Essex and Old Lyme in the late 1880s, and in 1905 he bought a summer home in the Hamburg Cove section of Lyme. Clarity of light and form are Bruestle signatures. His aggressive brushwork, restricted palette, and sharp light-dark contrasts give his Lyme landscapes a feeling of rawness. Glaring sunlight, sinuous trees, and sharp-edged boulders -- which seem here to be straining against a force from the left – create an intensity that is palpable.