And the third painting in the series Excavation at Night (1908) though unfortunately over-varnished, particularly
damaging for a very dark painting, but at the same time the shiny blackness of large
areas of the work served to reinforce the connection I made between Bellows» choice and treatment of this subject and Robert Smithson «s
observations on entropy in his 1967 essay «A Tour of the Monuments of Passaic, New Jersey.»