New Morning 2

New Morning 2

Acrylic on Canvas 40x40 inches

Raymond Neher

From a slide of the original artwork

Raymond Neher's work "New Morning 2" shows a figure apparently floating in the heavens while holding a rainbow in his outstretched hands.

The figure evokes the resurrected Christ, and the title of the piece implies a sense of rebirth.

This is one of two paintings from the period in which Neher painted a rainbow into the piece. (The other is his piece "The Californians".) When taken together,  one can guess at the euphoria and sense of rebirth that Neher experienced with his move to San Francisco in 1973.