Narrator: In 1933, artist Oscar Bluemner paid a visit to his former home in New Jersey, which he had left after the death of his wife. This painting is a record of the emotional impact of that visit. The sky is red; the simplified forms of the buildings yellow, offset by black. The gray canal in the foreground and the bare black and gray trees in the background add an ominous element. Toward the end of his life, Bleumner noted that he often used the combination lemon yellow and black to "stir up an exquisite sensation." Of the color red, he said that it represented "fire, blood, the sun; passion, struggle, and majesty." Bluemner, a German immigrant, ascribed specific meaning to different colors, borrowing his ideas from the German philosopher Goethe. Five years after this painting was made, Bluemner took his own life. He once said, "I should be a writer, I would be a composer, but being all retina, I saw it all in color."