A red-brick apartment building in the artist's Upper East Side neighborhood, painted from a photograph taken on a walk in August 2024 — this time from directly underneath, looking up. The fourth painting in the cityscape series and the first to commit to a worm's-eye view. The building stretches up toward a black water tower at the roofline, the title's monument, with foliage from the tree the artist was standing under pressing into the top of the canvas. The palette stays at six colors per medium — red, yellow, blue, white, black, green — and forces the brick into pure red, with black for the shadowed sides and white scribble for sunlit windows. Blue marks the recessed panes. Green appears twice, in the canopy overhead and the bushes at street level, so the building is bracketed by foliage. The sky is worked entirely by finger, with cobalt and white smudged into each other directly on the canvas.
- Subject Matter: Cityscape
- Collections: Color and Surface: Views from the City