Riverdale Park Series             Painting by Gerald King

It was Mother's Day 1997 and a family came to place a rose on the steel plaque commemorating those who contributed to purchase a new/old town clock. I was just starting a painting from that vantage point. It would become a seminal work in a series about Riverdale Park and it's struggle to impede the encroachment of the sterile facades of modern architecture. It was a point at  which the citizens were re-evaluating change and thinking about preserving some of the ambiance of earlier times.  It was this awakening to the beauty of the past which I tried to portray in this work. The storm of modernism has past and life re-emerges more aware of the nature of man and his need for beauty.

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