Bee Bee

Bee Bee Roof Furniture #2 (blue), acrylic on canvas, 21 1/2" x 19", The Phillips Collection

Bee Bee Chartreuse #4, acrylic on canvas, 27.75 x 29.5 in., Federal Reserve Board Collection

Bee Bee (split) #3, acrylic on canvas, 31 1/4" x 59", The Phillips Collection

Bee Bee Orange, acrylic on canvas, 13 1/2" x 15 1/2", 2012

Bee Bee Abstract Rose & Blue, acrylic on paper, 20 1/2" x 19 1/2"

Bee Bee Air Handler #2, acrylic on canvas, 39" x 37", 2014
Sheehan Gallery Collection, Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA

Bee Bee Roof Furniture (blue), gouache on museum board, 16" x 15", 2008, Private Collection

Bee Bee Orange #5, acrylic on canvas, 24" x 34 1/4"

Bee Bee Blue, acrylic on canvas, 13 3/4" x 14 1/2", 2012, Private Collection

Bee Bee Orange Façade/Blue Sky, acrylic on canvas, 18 1/2" x 37"

Cradle to Grave #1, acrylic on canvas, 30 1/2" x 43"

Cradle to Grave #2 (gray), acrylic on canvas, 36" x 48 1/2"

Captivated by the warm light of the setting sun on a utilitarian hospital building, and intrigued by the image of a hospital inexplicably built next to a graveyard, Val Lewton captured the scene in photographs. He then set out to create beauty in a series of paintings progressively evolving from the loose brushstrokes of a realist interpretation to a tighter, flatter abstract. Each painting was a different experiment, and often increasingly architectural. Photographs were digitally manipulated in Photoshop, where Lewton changed colors, rearranged and repeated images... until satisfied, he committed the idea to canvas.