Bernard Chaet: First Light

Bernard Chaet, Full Dawn, 2002, oil on canvas mounted on panel (courtesy of Alpha Gallery)
Bernard Chaet, Full Dawn, 2002, oil on canvas mounted on panel (courtesy of Alpha Gallery)

Franklin Einspruch reviews Bernard Chaet: First Light at Alpha Gallery, Boston, on view through October 4, 2017.

Einspruch writes that "[Chaet's] landscapes are exuberant to the point of ferocity. Alpha Gallery in Boston is showing a suite of them produced during or inspired by plein-air sessions at dawn on the North Shore, towards and soon after the end of his four-decade tenure at Yale. Half a lifetime of teaching and marinating in technical knowledge didn’t stop him from painting like he had a fever."