Minnesota Scenes
 GEORGE TAPLEY (home)          Minnesota Scenes oil/canvas
Minneapolis Warehouse
oil/canvas
34.5" x 31"
$600.00

A view of the industrial buildings behind my studio. The simple geometry of the buildings
enlivened with the warm colors of late afternoon sunshine drew me to this scene. Framed in a light colored wood.
 GEORGE TAPLEY (home)          Minnesota Scenes oil/canvas
The White Tree Garden at the College
oil/canvas
21" x 25"
$400.00

The campus garden at St Catherine’s displayed a rich variety of greens in the trees and grass in contrast to the dark brown of the water in the pond. A single pale mauve evergreen provides a minor focal point.

Framed in a light colored wood.

 GEORGE TAPLEY (home)          Minnesota Scenes oil/canvas
Bridge at Franklin Avenue
oil/canvas
21" x 22"
$400.00

This austere bridge, seen here from below in bright morning light, provided a striking contrast to the surrounding vegetation. But the dark lines and abstracted shapes of the same trees and bushes seemed to unify the painting’s composition.

Framed in a light colored wood.
 GEORGE TAPLEY (home)          Minnesota Scenes oil/canvas
Franklin Bridge
oil/canvas
13" x 17"
$400.00

A small realistic painting showing the Franklin Ave bridge, the university campus, and, in the distance at the upper left, what the kids called “ the witches’ tower”.

Framed in a brown colored wood.

 GEORGE TAPLEY (home)          Minnesota Scenes oil/canvas
Street on Nicolette Island
oil/canvas
21" x 23"
$400.00

This unpaved street was painted during summer in the 1980s. Light fresh color
gives an Impressionist feel to the scene, only to be contradicted by the “ Gothic “ tower on the large building to the right. Framed in a light colored wood.
 GEORGE TAPLEY (home)          Minnesota Scenes oil/canvas
The Warehouse District
oil/canvas
13" x 16"
$400.00

This somewhat expressionistic view of the warehouse district with its hot pink and yellow colors reflects the painters concern with the
alarmingly frequent fires that broke out in buildings not far from the artists studio.

Framed in a light colored wood.

 GEORGE TAPLEY (home)          Minnesota Scenes oil/canvas
Street Scene Downtown Minneapolis
oil/canvas
22" x 18"
$400.00

A carefully composed and deliberately static image of part of the downtown. A single large evergreen tree contrasts with the surrounding geometric buildings. The solitary figure of a young woman enters the scene on a sidewalk
across the street.

Framed in a light colored wood.
 GEORGE TAPLEY (home)          Minnesota Scenes oil/canvas
Warehouse District
oil/canvas
18" x 24"
$400.00

.A soft evening light illuminates the unpaved area behind the buildings on Washington Ave.
Railroad tracks, wooden crossing signs, here appear as fragments of a bygone industrial age. The slender branches of a tree are all that remain of the fertile land on which the warehouses were developed.

 GEORGE TAPLEY (home)          Minnesota Scenes oil/canvas
Behind the Studios on Washington Avenue
oil/canvas
16" x 20"
$400.00

Another view of the same area with a larger
portion of the view devoted to the sky. A low horizon and an empty foreground help to
emphasize the depth of space. A rough path zigzags between the buildings and further points up the sense of deep space. Framed in a light colored wood.
 GEORGE TAPLEY (home)          Minnesota Scenes oil/canvas
House on Franklin Avenue
oil/canvas
13" x 12"
$400.00

Framed in a light colored wood.

 GEORGE TAPLEY (home)          Minnesota Scenes oil/canvas
Pillsbury Mansion in Minneapolis
oil/canvas
15" x 18"
$400.00

Framed in a light colored wood.
 GEORGE TAPLEY (home)          Minnesota Scenes oil on canvas
Franklin Bridge
oil on canvas
16" x 20"
400.00

Framed in a gray colored wood.

 GEORGE TAPLEY (home)          Minnesota Scenes oil on canvas
Pond at St Catherine's
oil on canvas
18 " x 23"
400.00

Framed in a light colored wood.