Incendiary Nocturne with Stormy Sea (48 x 40 inches) evokes this excitement through its portrayal of several streaking rockets.
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Incendiary Nocturne with Stormy Sea» (Mass MoCA # 253) by Stephen Hannock, 2016.
The Incendiary Nocturne paintings lean heavily on earlier masterworks of this era, especially the Romanticist paintings of J.M.Turner (1775 - 1851) whose The Eruption of the Souffrier Mountains looks as though it was painted on an adjacent easel with the same palette of burnt umber and cadmium yellow.
Co-curator Stephen Hannock is an American Luminist painter known for his atmospheric landscapes and
incendiary nocturnes.