Color Stories: Cloud Blue/Tangerine

REDD — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 11:22:00 GMT

Leading up to the release of the updated Robert Redd Color Stories, we at REDD are disclosing bits and pieces of the material we've collected and researched so far. Of particular note is an excerpt from a journal Robert Redd kept in his early twenties, in his college years, during which he spent considerable time learning abroad. In 1896, Robert had the following to say about his stay in France: "It's been said so often as to become banal, but there really is nothing like Paris in the springtime. Clouds against blue overhead, the Jardin des Tuileries all around, and the grand-standing Palais du Louvre on the horizon. I watched Madeline—excuse me, Margarette—walk the eight-sided perimeter of the reflecting pool, in which I swear you could see the image of the clouds more sharply than they appear in the firmament itself.

Maurice Prendergast, Sailboat Pond Tuileries

"But what a difference the daylight makes! Last night's misadventure in the Moulin Rouge is but a memory, yet the gaudy lights of the cabaret still dance across my mind's eye. And the taste of tangerine, offered to me by Margarette—or was it Melanie?—lingers still on the tip of my tongue."

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Color Stories: Cloud Blue/Tangerine