The China Syndrome (1979)

Love the lamp and the pet turtle.
Love the lamp and the pet turtle.
Book cover with distressed abstract design in black on light blue
Book cover with composition of two Greco-Roman busts and distressed print effects
Buildings, trees, and telephone poles are illuminated by a single streetlight in the first couple of depictions, whereas in the last, August Night at Russell’s Corners, which Ault painted in his final year of life, the darkness consumes all but two shadowed faces of barns and a small patch of road, as if Ault is losing the tight hold he once had on the world.
From Smithsonian Magazine