All of which led, finally, to one of the most memorable,
magical scenes ever witnessed at the spectacle that is this race.
Black Brook 18 radiates like an electric Rothko; Untitled Landscape I is like the largest folk painting
ever made, and as
magical; Untitled Cityscape 5 combines the mysteries of Goya's black paintings and Hopper's solitude; and Snow
Scene 2 shows Katz embodying the state of grace that poet Wallace Stevens called «a mind of winter.»