Distanced

A most enjoyable walk around Watergrove in glorious sunshine.  There were plenty of people about but all were socially distanced.

An early 20th century group of modernist artists, based in New York, were referred-to as the "Ashcan School" because they documented the unfashionable aspects of urban life, albeit in a rather traditional painting style.  One of their number was George Bellows.  His Both Members of This Club (1909) is an uncompromisingly brutal depiction of a private boxing match. 

As the century progressed, more and more American artists moved towards abstraction. Charles Demuth's My Egypt (1927) is a semi-abstract view of farm buildings in his home town Lancaster, Pennsylvania.  The title suggests that he may have seen the structures as similarly monumental to the pyramids.