[Jim] is a “single-focus artist.” In his serene works, there is often only one boat – a catboat at rest on the flats or a sailboat causing hardly a ripple as it moves through the water. Or there is one chair – an Adirondack, a simple wooden one or a lifeguard stand – on an empty beach. He has painted that lifeguard stand more than once, and calls it “iconic.” He sees the chair as an architectural element, which relates to his interest in architecture when he paints houses on the Cape – solitary ones sometimes tightly cropped with the play of light and shadow on them, just as Hopper did.
