Untitled

A major influence on the artists of the Progressive Artists’ Group, and as a painter himself, Walter Langhammer both encouraged as well as identified with the Western art practices of the time. Most of his landscapes, including this Untitled oil, were trips down memory lane of his own homeland in Europe, which he had fled when war broke out. There is something somnolent about the atmosphere, almost of languidness. There is nothing ominous in this painting; if anything, it has an air of calm serenity.