Toile Men Above the Avenue

Perched high above a hazy avenue, silhouetted against pale steel and morning light, three workers sit quietly on scaffolding as the city bustles far below. In Men Above the Avenue, the artist captures not just the process of building—but the weight, grace, and stillness of those who do the building. The style evokes the golden age of American industry and Art Deco ambition, with brushstrokes that balance architectural precision and painterly warmth. Light pools through the urban canyon, casting glows along stone and glass, while the distant street below teems with ghostlike crowds rendered in miniature scale. Yet above it all, the men rest: in shadow, in solitude, in suspended labor. Their posture is neither triumphant nor weary—it is quiet, alert, human. They are both dwarfed by and intrinsic to the rising skyline.