In the Bucket by Robin Gowen

Oil on canvas, 14 x 11 inches

In this painting, contemporary landscape artist Robin Gowen shows two telephone repairmen working. Note how she employs expressive light to gently mix nature, technology and labor. 

“In the Bucket” is part of the Labor Arts exhibit Scenes of American Labor with thirty nine paintings that evoke the individual and physical experience of work. The entire series is housed at the Sullivan Goss Gallery in Santa Barbara, CA.