For sale on eBay:20 X 24 inches Oil on canvas by Sunday Painter, William O. Lambert. Think Conrad Buff or Dale Nichols without the rigor...Thiebaud minus genius...Hopper without pathos or painterly expertise...think San Fernando Valley where, in the immortal words of Neal Diamond.."Sun shines most the time...and the feelin' is lay back...".
Still...there's something here. It's got soul and honest intent. A certain guileless modernity, if such a thing existed and if you consider the time and place....
1942...THE VALLEY was not, then, what it is today and there's something to be said for an honest visual document of that time. Think of it: With the world at War, not a shameful carte blanche red herring or a grab for oil money but a war for the soul of the world, a man sets up his easel overlooking his piece of God's Green Earth in California and commits it to memory for us to see...after 65 years. And if someone buys it on Ebay and enjoys it and protects it, it will reach a hundred years and maybe two and come to make sense in a way that we can't possibly comprehend in a 2007 that will someday be an impossibly distant past.
It's an honest picture. I'll start it at 1 honest dollar. William O. Lambert...Sunday painter...painter on and of Sundays in 1942.
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