I got the idea of making a series of Seasons.
The first one was Winter, followed by Autumn and Spring and finally Summer.
They were the times of the year in "Grandfather Land."
 

Winter...
April 3-4,  1981.
Set out to make a series of the seasons in Grandfather Land

NO SIGNS.
No signs in the evening air, no little talismans.
No signs in the evening air—except for the sun,
The sun as a ring in the depths.
Put on the ring.

Autumn...
April 6-7, 1981.
If there are going to be (if I am going to make) a “Seasons in the Coast Range,” the painting of April 3-4 is winter.  This one is autumn… and Grandfather’s woods.

I look at these paintings as if they were landscapes.
April 3-4, “Winter,” is the shore;
and April 6-7, “Autumn” is the woods.

Spring...
April 15, 1981.
A painting of “Spring” for the Seasons in Grandfather Land

This painting is an adequate response to working and being in the gardens of Green Gates in the spring.

And in every way except scale and, I suppose depth (whatever that is) and esthetic/technical sophistication, this painting and its recent companions are exactly in the family of my work in the summer  of 1947 when I first discovered nature in Redwood Park and in the hills west of the San Leandro Reservoir.  And the painting of April 3-4 certainly belongs to the winter of that year and walking in the afternoon at Land’s End and on Bolinas Reef.

Summer...
July 15, 1981.

A few other paintings from this time...

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