t may come as no surprise that throughout the selection of paintings I had the pleasure and honor of choosing for this issue of , there is an abundance of color—bright, garish, dazzling, joyous, irreverent, lovely color. After all, the entries were submitted and the jurying undertaken in the summer of 2020. Under the cloud of possible reelection of an authoritarian, antidemocratic, nativist, whitesupremacist, and contemptuous president, it was a season of illness, death, and grief stemming from the global pandemic, and of international uprisings
