And occasionally a canvas shows a slightly wrinkled washboard effect from being rolled up for so long.
The nine canvases on view show a natural painter circling back to retrieve a successful style and bring it forward in time.
The acrylic on canvas, "Summer Memories" (2003) shows a real understanding of mood and movement.
Some were superimposed on others the way a painted canvas may show ghosts of earlier pictures beneath the present surface.
His canvases show him to be a far less compelling a painter at close inspection.
The huge canvas shows a female foot in a loafer retreating through a door; also the shadow of the artist.
The 1986 canvas shows her walking forward on a path between plots of grass flecked with tiny pink flowers.
A 1949 canvas shows a woman seated in an armchair, the chair's green back contracting around her head like a lace mantilla.
His early canvases, from his first visit to Paris, show a marked fauvist tendency.
He may empathize with them, but to his credit, his canvas shows them for what they are.